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Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
A garden reborn
a garden reborn