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Kill the football bill
Starmer hasn’t grasped that over-regulation is inimical to economic growth
Parliamentary pensions’ punishment of defence
MPs should not be enabling woke anti-defence attitudes
Britain must escape the clutches of cringe
We have nothing to lose but our Paddington toys
Why Easter should matter to us all
Its themes are relevant to everyone, not just to the religious
The costs of cost-benefit analysis
We have to be more sceptical about the use of data in governance
We should dissent from our allies on assisted suicide
Their examples show the dangers of legalisation
Bring back the song-and-dance men
The brilliance of an overlooked generation of 18th century English music makers
Was this Chinese painter mad?
His style and eccentric life were to prove highly influential to younger artists
The toxic shame of Progressive Man
Sex denialists are doubling down on their own irrationality
The NIMBY menace
This is not planning, it’s a druidic biodiversity inquisition wrapped in DEFRA jargon
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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
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off