Why do right-wing “transvestigators” believe Michelle Obama is a man?
The online right is lost inside an “emasculation fetish”.
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Talking to strangers enriches our lives in countless ways
Public spaces are for making contact – and making contact is how we survive this world together.
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Why is Birmingham leading Britain’s child poverty spiral?
The UK's forgotten second city is at the apex of a worrying trend.
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Why we should always expect the worst
The BBC podcast At Your Own Peril explores the history of risk and the importance of disaster planning.
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Britain is walking into an American opioid crisis
Overdoses are mounting across the country, and the state needs to intervene.
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Adieu, Groucho Club
An establishment where my heart and my lighter were stolen.
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Musa al-Gharbi’s dire diagnosis for the woke elite
The sociologist on Ivy League hypocrisy, the four “great awokenings”, and what Kamala Harris got wrong.
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Subscriber of the week: Arthur Harvey
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In praise of herd mentality
The best crowds are joyful expressions of democracy and belonging. So why do we fear them so much?
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How true crime became “victim-centred”
The genre can no longer justify itself in terms of entertainment value alone. Enter the ubiquitous invocation of the victim.
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Colin Ward’s school without walls
The New Statesman columnist and anarchist was a proponent of radical social change that put the most vulnerable first.
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Another week, another encounter with the long arm of the law
Despite my best efforts, it seems my council tax bill has come a-knocking.
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The remoralisation of politics is long overdue
For common decency to prevail, we must understand the economic, social and psychological pressures that influence the way we behave.
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For those graduating this summer: consider the generations to come
A university education gives you disproportionate freedom, power and potential. It’s a real responsibility.
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“Pro-family” rhetoric and its fascist resonances
Traditional gender roles have propped up authoritarian regimes of the past. In Republicans’ views on women, the echoes are clear.
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Ireland’s progressive centre cannot hold
As Leo Varadkar steps down as Taoiseach, voters are turning away from the Republic’s mainstream liberal consensus.
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The unlikely refuge of British supermarkets
As libraries and community centres disappear, retail spaces are becoming the last resort of people seeking connection.
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The Church is being villainised over the Clapham chemical attack
Religious figures have been drawn into debates over false asylum claims – but it is the process that is flawed.
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David Brooks’ delusions of moral decline
How to Know a Person argues that public life no longer values honour and empathy – but the evidence is…
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In power, Labour will have to act like a wartime cabinet
Would an “activist” Starmer government have what it takes to rebuild Britain’s collapsing infrastructure?
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