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Fuccboi: a load of modern toss
A failed American Psycho for the PornHub generation
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious