Tony Blair
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Labour’s looming constitutional vandalism
A Labour landslide will complete the Blairite destruction of Britain’s unique constitution
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
Foxy old Labour
Going after private schools would be an act of pointless institutional vandalism
A time for restoration
An interview with David Starkey
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
Legacy of failure
13 years of missed chances, bungled crises and miserable inaction
Higher education: a diagnosis
We need to address the underlying causes of academic decline
Sue Gray’s inbox
As hacked by Robert Hutton
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
