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Life as an accidental émigré
The coronavirus pandemic has birthed a new historically-specific group: the lockdown refugees
Don’t legalise assisted suicide
British politicians have turned down assisted suicide legislation several times before. They must do so again
Pitch inversion
Boris Johnson may rue the day he gave a footballer a gong for something other than football
The perils of artivism
No space for art: how the ICA has been using public generosity to promote political activism
Pick of the bunch
Garden flowers are for posies
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
The human rights era failed us
More than 70 years into the human rights era, the world is no more peaceful or tolerant
Allies at war
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British contribution to the Allied victory
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
Is he bovvered?
Boris can do compassion. When he can be bothered.
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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
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit