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Saving politics from Starmerism
Beware the managerialists who think that all important political questions have been solved
Political Islam is already in Britain
Lutfur Rahman and the case study of Tower Hamlets
History rebooted
Humanity can’t stay stagnant for long
Making house calls
The average age of a construction worker in the UK now is 50
The revenge of the Blob
Mercurius Cantabrigiensis laments the bias in the public appointments system
Down the chute
Venting about laundry and low expectations
A spectre is haunting Europe
The spectre of the Donald
A question of killing
Why is it okay to kill granny but not child murderers?
The fall of the German firewall
The establishment cannot continue to prioritise keeping out the AfD
Europe must stop lying to itself
Systematic mistruths are crippling our economies
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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 misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards