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Young Winston: seizing the day
The life before his and our finest hour
Let’s ban the TV
Television, not the internet, is driving people mad
Could Germany have an anti-woke Left?
As the Bundesrepublik’s political centre crumbles, the BSW eyes a gap in the market
The art of experience
The great German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich deserves more attention
A new series about an absolute cult
A charismatic narcissist, some flirty fishing, and mass delusion
Making America grate
Team US might need the commander-in-chief’s help to win the Ryder Cup
An influential Irishman
John Field: Complete Nocturnes (DG)
Battered and beguiling
Polish art should not be ashamed of being Polish
Losing our religion?
Britain’s moral framework is neither pagan, nor Christian any longer
Has Trump killed the arts centre?
Scrap the arts centre and restore primacy to the people making art
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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
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?