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Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
