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What is wrong now was wrong before
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It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
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The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is welcome step forward
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation