Armando Iannucci
Why politics kills comedy
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Tinker Bell, Puck, Dobby & Co.
An account of everything even the most dedicated fairy-follower could want to discover
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Murders for July
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Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own