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Pleasure and pain
Nick Cohen says the runner’s hardest task is knowing when to stop
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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
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures