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The deep humanity of books
Manuscripts have weathered the vicissitudes of time only thanks to human passion
The strange death of liberal Germanophilia
Do the Germans “do it better”?
Ireland’s modern reformation
One cannot shed a faith without adopting another
The wisdom of gamekeepers (w/ Patrick Galbraith)
Deer, eels and Philip Larkin’s lawnmower
Deconstructing the decolonisers
An intellectual Robin Hood reclaims British history for those most underserved by elite narratives
What you lose while renting
The housing crisis has miserable micro-consequences
Just stop illegality
Protest is no excuse for causing significant harm
In-fighting on the brink of triumph
Andrew Neil should have been welcomed to the gender critical cause
Love in Barbie Land
Barbie offers a healthy perspective on the relationship between the sexes
A nation of motorists
Metropolitan journalists do not appreciate how the nation travels
Most Read
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
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet