Gerontocracy
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
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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
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible