Social Issues
Mining the past
There is a deep appetite among Britain’s television audience for dramas that tackle complicated social issues
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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
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering