2020
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.