Election
We deep dive at dawn
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Why do the Tories love to promote their enemies?
They have failed to find and empower their own supporters
Why would anyone vote Tory?
The Conservatives have nothing to boast about
Girlhood is not a fetish
The Democrats cannot grow up
The road to somewheres
Can the Tories win back alienated voters?
Storms in South America
The Brazilian elections have divided the country like never before
Meloni is no fascist
Media hysteria distorts our understanding of European politics
How liberalism stole democracy
And how to get it back
Labour’s lost cause
Despite recent successes, the party is still leaving working class voters behind
Sinn Fein’s victory brings new urgency to Protocol crisis
Northern Ireland Protocol looms over Ulster politics as the Nationalists threaten to upend business as usual in Belfast
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
