Captain Tom
In defence of the Ingram-Moores
Don’t blame them; blame yourself
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them