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Silence of the fans
Nick Cohen says silent sport needs crowds to give it meaning
Down with the Crown
The Sussexes are just one minor factor among a number that could ultimately lead to the demise of the monarchy
The British Twitter Stasi
Police forces should not be secretly recording my tweets as ‘hate incidents’
Quiet, you’ll get yours in a minute
He’d have wanted “Dropping the Pilot”
“But is it good for the Jews?” Why Dom Cummings departure probably is
Toby Young was a huge fan of Dominic Cummings. The lockdown changed his mind
The writings of Lewis and Tolkien embody conservative environmentalism
The Conservative party were once the country party. They could be again. It might even net them some votes
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people
Little cup of perfection
Lisa Hilton praises a divine lunch in Santiago de Compostela
Wheeling and spieling
Thomas Woodham-Smith breaks the antique shop silence
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)