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The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
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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
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage