The Guardian
The Guardian’s McCarthyite gender politics
Ideological policing of Róisín Murphy is a cynical tribalism divorced from social justice
Compulsory coronation?
Guardian columnists can’t stop telling us how little they care
The secret diary of Adrian Chiles (aged 55 11/12ths)
A glimpse of genius at work
Political fever dreams
Not everything we dislike is Hitler
The knife-wielding obituarist
Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive
You can censor, but you can’t hide
The Guardian’s redacting controversial commentary on the gender wars does a disservice to readers
The decline of the quality press
Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster
The art of the obituarist
In the wake of the Guardian’s controversial obituary of Peter Sutcliffe, Alex Larman considers the nuances of writing obits
BLM racists don’t speak for me
How have racial slurs become progressive politics?
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
