UK Drill
The end of UK drill
A genre based on sensational violence is simply fizzling out
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
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
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
