Demi Lovato
The pain gain
In today’s pop world trauma is an asset
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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
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain