Anthony Blond
Simon Raven
A controversial writer who could produce work as splendid as it was scurrilous
Goodbye to the Blonds
The generation of idiosyncratic proprietors who changed the face of the British book industry
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
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.
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian