Pat McFadden
Labour’s perverse “working class” civil service plan
Are you common enough to run the country?
The real Deputy Prime Minister
Pat McFadden is the real man behind the throne
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics