Boris Johnson
A Covid bounce?
The election results on Thursday haven’t proved lockdown sceptics were wrong
Winning by inches or losing by miles?
The Scottish Conservatives self-congratulation is delusional. They have not stopped the SNP.
Line of Duty and the politics of drama
It doesn’t take the minds of AC-12’s finest to see the parallels between our own political climate and the nation’s favourite police drama
Nothing matters to careless people
The vigorous virtues are antique now
Chatty rat-a-tat-tat
The Doms of Navarone
He can bodge it
Thérèse Coffey defends Downing Street’s home furnishing revamp
What does it profit a man?
Aw it’s not for you, it’s more of a Shelbyville wallpaper
Let Boris be Boris
His problems aren’t other people, they’re other people’s people
Brought to heel
Go, Johnny, go!
Handle this situation maturely
Or chaos with Ed Miliband
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris