Intellectualism
Talk is deep
Thought as a social process rather than a private mental activity
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold