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The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Why Essex is Britain’s most right-wing county
Essex is both traditionalist and highly entrepreneurial
The will to power
Voluntarismo flourishes in times of cynicism about politics
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
The myth of the emotionally unstable populist voter
It’s time that smug pseudo-centrists had more humility
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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
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define