Jeremy Corbyn visits Islington school children. Credit: Getty

12/06/2019 - 3:00pm

Labour plans to squeeze out religious education The manifesto pledge to reconsider RE classes is part of a grander plan

Finally! The Swedish ‘moderates’ agree to work with the populists The only way for populist movements to mature is to let them in

Thursday

05.12

The Lib Dems should have got my vote, but they won’t It’s the Alien v Predator v Terminator election – whoever wins, we lose

Who is the world’s most typical person? The answer might be very different in 100 years' time

Wednesday

04.12

What’s behind Hexham’s happiness? In Northumbria, wealth doesn't equal contentment

To boldly go? You first, Mr Bezos The Amazon founder should focus on problems back down on Earth

Tuesday

03.12

Communism creeps into America America's illiberal mood bears a worrying resemblance to another era

Conservatives can be politically correct too The Right favours groups they would prefer to talk about kindly rather than coarsely

Mary Harrington

How to turn higher production into higher wages A captive labour force might be good for a company, but not the economy

Monday

02.12

Let’s hear from the Unheard Third A new BBC programme about non voters has some interesting ideas...

What Andrew Sullivan taught me about Michael Oakeshott My latest interviewee has got me excited about an often overlooked British philosopher

Out today: Andrew Sullivan’s confessions Don't miss the British-American columnist's reflections

There’s nothing taboo about the Anglo Saxons The latest controversy over the term 'Anglo-Saxon' ignores their significant history

Saturday

30.11

How can we find meaning in bullshit jobs? Jonah Galeota-Sprung finds an inherent tension in the social role of work

Mary Harrington

Friday

29.11

Look closely, and London is not what it seems

Why haven’t we banned cars yet? They're designing a new car-free town in Arizona - we should follow their lead

Is it immoral to vote for Labour? Corbyn's party has become an incubator for the hatred of Jews

Thursday

28.11

Is Jordan Peterson a gateway to the alt-right? A new study suggests maybe — but it's still better to engage than to demonise

How old is too old in politics? Should there be an age limit for political candidates?

Is America losing the war on misery? More Americans are dying 'deaths of despair' through drug or alcohol abuse

Mary Harrington

Wednesday

27.11

The YouGov map that says it all One powerful image shows how the Tories are heading for a majority

Did the Green Party miss a trick with Brexit? Could a pro-Brexit Greens party have united liberals and small c conservatives?

Netflix is like food – more doesn’t mean better We end up consuming rubbish, even though there's plenty of good stuff to go round

Tuesday

26.11

Today’s immigration data reveals a divided country The latest polling on UnHerd Britain shows how attitudes to immigration differ, even between neighbouring areas

Monday

25.11

Housing policy — will the Tories never learn? A government that refuses to take action against rentiers and land bankers will not be able to deliver affordable home ownership

Elsa goes all Elizabeth Warren in Frozen 2 Should the snow queen take a 23andMe test?

The Manichaeism of the Left will be its undoing The good-or-evil cult of the Corbyn Left will prevent it winning elections

Podcast: George Monbiot’s Confessions The latest episode of Confessions with Giles Fraser is now live

Saturday

23.11

GPS “crop circles” point to a weird data future This story from MIT Technology Review reveals a new kind of big data crime

Mary Harrington

Friday

22.11

Now the Illiberal Democrats ban Catholics A Lib Dem candidate was deselected on the grounds that he is an orthodox Roman Catholic

Young Tories can’t find a place to live 'Partyism' is spreading into every area of life, but there is a cure

Thursday

21.11

Two cheers for Labour’s housing policy It pains me to say it, but there's a lot to welcome in Corbyn's manifesto