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More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
A judicial defence of religious liberty is long overdue
Christians should not be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
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
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?