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The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Five: Second World War Brain, Imaginary Theme Parks, and Sympathy for Andrew
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Possibly. Will you wish you'd forgotten this final painful pentalogy of bad columns…
Dec 31, 2025
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The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Four: An A-Bomb on Glastonbury, Mamdani derangement syndrome, and the least surprising Tory turn...
It's the Christmas gift that definitely wasn't on your list: The penultimate part of this year's countdown of catastrophic column writing.
Dec 24, 2025
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The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Three: Clarkson vs the NHS, the phoney war on 'woke', and Boris' beard buffet
Our ascent of the year's Everest of Awful Takes continues...
Dec 17, 2025
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Guest post: Murdoch’s invisible hand
How News International funded one of the very right-wing think-tanks its outlets quote all the time...
Dec 11, 2025
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The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good…
Our annual look at the commentariat's most contemptuous content continues.
Dec 10, 2025
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The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
Let's celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with a bonfire of bad takes...
Dec 4, 2025
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The budget, the British press, and the long shadow of Benefits Street
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
Nov 27, 2025
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Rage-bait articles about people angry they're getting free money are the real inheritance tax...
Is the future of British newspapers just endless stories of well-off people pretending to be victims?
Nov 24, 2025
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