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Towards Anglo-French anti-extremism
France was right to ban a campaigner with dubious Islamist connections
Stand up for Karen
We ought to be prepared to confront rulebreakers
Beeching reconsidered
We must assess history before we judge it
Honouring Amber
We must remember victims of evil
Prohibitionist alchemy
More alcohol advertising does not mean more drinking
Eccentricities and obsessions
Novels that say a lot without making lots of noise
Big pay rises won’t beat inflation
The poor are best helped through tax and benefits, not boosting the minimum wage
Requiem for London’s music
How London has lost its place as a classical music capital.
Fantasies of urban order
Gove’s Cambridge dreams reek of desperation
Starmer’s TRA test
What Keir Starmer could learn from Stonewall’s cowardice
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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
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
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
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.
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf