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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
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine