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Georgia on my mind
Georgia is growing in crediblitiy as a rugby power
The clock ticks ever louder
The Tory excuse of wait-and-see on the performance of their leader is already wearing thin
Visiting great uncle Don
Is uncle’s senility a very clever act?
No, vaping is not as dangerous as smoking
There is no good evidence to support scaremongering
Who’s been propping up Stonewall?
The LGBT blob gets funding from the strangest places
Deconstructing the architecture of cancel culture
The censorious impulse is degrading intellectual discourse on both sides of the Atlantic
Rewiring the state
DOGE isn’t just about cancelling civil servants’ away days
We should hail the cab-rank rule
The principle that barristers should accept any brief is all too easily sidestepped
This earthy opera is a real sob story
I have seen seven different productions of Jenůfa and I never fail to be overcome
VAR is a blight on the Premier League
A blight on the Premier League
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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
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong