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Southern discomfort
Has rugby league finally given up on London?
Sinn Féin’s shame
The Irish republican movement’s dark history of sexual abuse and cover-up
A gap-toothed city
The campaign to put up a statue to Bristol’s greatest benefactor wasn’t about Colston, it was about Bristol
Grope springs eternal
Rupert Goold’s Spring Awakening was too woke to be stirring
Crisis at the crease
We need a new mission to save English cricket from the men in suits
A fond farewell to Barry Cryer
His death is a loss for the English comic tradition
Penny’s pointless battle
Fighting about pronouns gets in the way of real feminism
The Boer War
Professor Jeremy Black talks about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat
The hidden greatness of snowflakes
Hannah Jewell’s blog-post-turned-self-help-book says we should all aspire
We all broke lockdown, and we should have broken it more
Time to admit it: the rules were always silly, and often cruel