The Netherlands
The Anglo-Dutch moment and its consequences
The English and the Dutch owe more to each other than they realise
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka
To win the war, stop fighting
Drug cartels and the underground economy fear legalisation and deregulation
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era