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Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
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
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
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss