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Don’t just do something
We should be more sceptical of reactive legislation
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it