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Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
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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
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet