Salonica
The city that forgot itself
The tortured twentieth-century history of the once cosmopolitan Thessaloniki
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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
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state