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Be more Disraeli
Labour need to drop the Gladstonian hectoring if they want to win
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders