Bread and circuses
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
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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
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle