Gnostics
Our age of anxiety
Modern progressives are revolting against nature
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name