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The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing