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Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
A Boxing Day treat
It’s Boxing Day — and that means it’s the King George VI Chase at Kempton
Blazing a trail
Put your neck on the line with these winter picks
Christmas? My arse!
Seething about Santa, sofagate and the Common effing Entrance
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Most Read
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
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)