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What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
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
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 martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous