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A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Eventful afterlife of a visionary genius
Unexpected bit players in Friedrich’s story set this endeavour apart from your average art biography
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
The generation game
Ultimately pro-natalist in tone, this book approaches millennial worries about parenthood with curiosity and kindness
The joy of old English
Interest in language was once the domain of antiquarians and clergymen
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches