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Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
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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
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company