fundamentalism
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Jephtha, Royal Opera House
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
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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
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
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Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth