SPOTY
Winning and losing
Emma Raducanu is a worthy winner of SPOTY — but will she continue her impressive rise?
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
