Terry Eagleton
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders