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Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands