Junko Takase
Snapshots of a strong and silent type
Amid brands and trends, how do we identify the good stuff?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)