Summer Recess
Will the summer recess really be a break?
Graham Stewart and David Scullion discuss what we can expect in the coming weeks
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.