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Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
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
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
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
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches