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A chronicle of gratitude and ambivalence
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: 12th symphony/Dawn (Chandos)
Heaven is where the chefs are British
In praise, and not just defence, of British cooking
The rise and rise of military history
A fine new landmark in the welcome renaissance of a timeless genre
The culture war has become the culture
On the discourse and the subject
BBC News prefers some voices to others
How the Beeb fails to inform
From slobs to royalty
How the Royle Family mirrored working class life
We can’t lose the word “woman”
Women face enough ignorance about their health without gender ideology making it worse
Ideas, influence and international politics
The academic origins of geopolitics explained
The globalisation of sin taxes
The FCTC is a revealing exemplar of the unaccountable global quangocracy
Peckham, protests and “parasitic merchants”
Demonstrations have exposed the tribal underbelly of modern Britain
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished