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History, fans, noise and passion
Football fans know a Proper Club when they see one
Chip race with China
China’s purchase of Newport Wafer Fab follows a strategy to control high-tech supply chains. Does our Government grasp the danger?
Cancelling Terry Gilliam (again)
Gilliam is now 80, and seems as cheerily intent on causing trouble and controversy as ever
Bezos’s sub-prime delivery
One is a billionaire with visions of conquering space — the other is Hugo Drax
What does it mean to be a woman?
Trans activists purporting to be women in the “wrong” body are incapable of understanding our day-to-day lives
Happily devoid of consequences
The Beano magazine retains its quality but not all its character over the decades
Better men in prison than women in morgues
The feminist fix: Violent men — not alcohol, unemployment, COVID or stress — kill women
How to alienate good people
Having insulted thousands of its blameless members, the Church of England now aims to embed racial distinction in its very structures
The curse of the Next Big Thing label
Picking sport’s winners and losers when they are so young is a mug’s game
Licence to Chill
Boris’s Bond bombshell fails to detonate