Education unions
Birbalsingh vs the blob
Labour’s education policy is simply concessions to special interests
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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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
