Establishment
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
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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
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together