Power Cuts
Spain’s blackout cover-up is a lesson in green spin
The power cuts and their fallout are a chilling reminder of the need for rational debate on energy
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation