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Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
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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
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company