Vitezslava Kapralova
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic