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The last days of Eric Liddell
God made him for a purpose — for China
Idiots and Italian art
I have to bite my tongue or risk being thrown off the flight to London
Time to bite the crypto-bullet?
Compared to Rachel Reeves’ dubious record, Bitcoin looks like a storm-proof harbour
Glorious half-century
When it’s good it’s very good indeed
Glorious things
This addition to the literature on monuments and commemoration is very welcome
Making Shakespeare zip
These new productions of Richard II and Much Ado About Nothing are pacy and fresh
Murders for March
Celebrity killings, Victorian mysteries, and murders on the high seas
You can’t improve on Schubert
Franz Schubert: Orchestral Songs, 9th symphony (Chandos)
Troubling Admissions
According to their own statistics, almost one in five Oxford students are disabled.
“Efficiency” is masked racism
If someone isn’t behaving like a Nazi, They’re definitely a Nazi
Most Read
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
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe