Moral Panics
A moral panic about moral panics?
We are in danger of making unhinged generalisations about unhinged generalisers
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Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
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Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
First-place Finnish
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Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Wit as well as social conscience
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A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent