Funeral
The death of the funeral
We abandon death rituals at our peril
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Why did India ban this film?
“Satluj” is an important film and its suppression is unjust
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer