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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
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes