Morality
Jane’s profound piety
Jeremy Black reviews Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics, by Tom Keymer
The language of Conservative priorities
Why does Boris want marriage to be a contract-at-will?
The Idea of a twenty-first century University
Newman’s Idea of The University imagined by Jeremy Black and William Gibson for the modern world
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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
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
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
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
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest