Safe battles, safe applause
Our theatres fight yesterday’s battles to avoid confronting today’s risks
Low mimetic nation
Why Britain keeps mistaking TV for real life
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid