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The masses might stone you
My time as the first foreign broadcaster accredited to Mao’s China
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth