Emily Maitlis
The News Agents’ selective outrage
Grooming gangs are the problem, not people sounding the alarm
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
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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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change