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Ricky Gervais should ask himself who he is satirising and why
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters