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The reality shows aiming to raise racing’s profile
Racing’s leadership has cottoned on to the fact that jockeys are the key to marketing
Don’t kid yourselves, Team Kemi
The Tories’ flailing failure looks more like performance art than sound political strategy
A straight woman cannot be a gay man
We should stop misleading each other and ourselves
What killed English football fandom?
Fans are being priced out and domesticated
In Brussels, the fish rots from the head
The EU is violating its own core values
The great wage squeeze
Why is everyone in Britain paid the same amount?
France needs a hero
All nations have known long winless periods, but the French drought in Paris has felt very long
An unconvincing case for Israel
Murray always seem to frame the facts in a manner that is maximally sympathetic to Israel
Lessons of the conclave
Pope Leo XIV must resist the siren call of celebrity culture and follow his own faith
We have to deal with the rise in long-term sickness
It is outrageous that millions are out of work and we don’t know why
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet