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When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
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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
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact