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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
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
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules