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Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
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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
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real