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The fascist state of Paw Patrol
There is no society or even commerce, just the relentless force of the police
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all