Awards
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
What do the BAFTAs really stand for?
The awards used to be entertainingly eccentric
Oscars so woke?
Predictability and cyclical trends at the 92nd Academy Awards
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy