Right to Roam
Ruffling feathers
A new book on rural Britain takes flak for listening to the “wrong” people
The promised land
Even when we try to be clear about how land makes us feel, we often get tangled up
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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve