Taboo
Eat on the wild side
A lamentation on the bland American diet
Cry foal
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on food taboos and why the British won’t eat horsemeat
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground