Houses
Planning to fail
Britain’s population is rapidly growing but the authorities seem implacably opposed to building new houses
A forever home
Architecture would be vastly more interesting if clients were happy to pay for character instead of accepting bland uniformity
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts