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What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Don’t trust the BBC on America
The Beeb has been entranced by the siren song of US-style polarisation
Writing the first draft of history
The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren
Terrible beauty
Does the World Press know what constitutes photojournalism?
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
More drama, less news
An element of fiction can bring insights and humanity that pure non-fiction lacks
GB News must save itself from itself
The channel can do important work if it gets out of its own way
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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
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
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
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette