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Don’t ask WhatsApp
Millions of messages, and sick of it
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
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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
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon