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Making love to the camera
Tory MPs are astonished to discover that CCTV exists
No place for women in art
If there’s one thing that unites elite British artists today, it’s that they’re all performatively woke or shamefully silent
The German threat to English exceptionalism
As England prepare to face the “old enemy” at Wembley, its impact on the nation’s mood — and our wider politics — cannot be underestimated
How does a Lions Tour compare to playing in the Rugby World Cup?
Graham Stewart and Boris Starling discuss the forthcoming Lions tour of South Africa
In praise of Sky Pool
Social distancing means something different up here
Letter from Washington: Do Democrats really want to learn from 2020?
A supposedly honest election post-mortem is a symptom of the party’s problems
Scare talk on steroids
The Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric about the return of Jim Crow laws risks derailing their voting rights legislation
Writing bigly
Jordan Peterson’s trouble with his publisher will look mild when compared with Donald Trump’s impending book
The King’s Alchemist (Willowhayne Records)
This collection of British music is what they should be playing over the speakers at Heathrow Airport
Contemporary writing with a twist and a tug
In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story
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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
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism