Institutions
Do we still live in a democracy?
Elections alone don’t make a democracy. Britain’s institutions are under strain, and trust in the state is slipping
The transcendent in the mundane
Religion cannot be abstracted from institutional life
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel