Neil Armstrong
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
The Pan Book of Horror Stories: top-drawer gore
Their lurid covers were catnip to bloodthirsty, impressionable teenagers
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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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
A below-par Riley is still better than most
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Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
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Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
