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Declining nude
A life drawing class gets rather too real
The space man
Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration
Summer for sale
Cricket has always bent with the winds of change
A great Games
Will new heroes arise in Paris, 100 years on?
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
Ireland’s Future has no future
Despite Irish separatist campaigning, Northern Ireland’s future remains firmly in the UK
Technical problems
Rishi Sunak must be glad to face one problem that is absolutely not his fault
The curse of super-councillors
MPs should not be focused on the local at the expense of the national
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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
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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers