Centrale Montemartini
Dei ex machinae
15 August is the worst day of the year for a swim at the Venice Lido
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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
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
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities