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The will to power
Voluntarismo flourishes in times of cynicism about politics
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
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
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment