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Luxury politics and the narcissistic left
Commodification with a woke twist
Too formal for the pub
Mr Händel im pub: Baroque meets folk (Arcantus)
Maaate
A short story
An opposition unto itself
Ahead of the Spanish elections, the alliance opposing the leftist ruling coalition is falling apart
Remembering an unfashionable writer
BBC Radio 4 attempts to resurrect fallen literary figures.
A glove affair
Christopher Pincher on great glove-making
Symptoms of mistrust
Academic free speech discourse points towards deeper decay
Left wing league table
Who holds keys to the future of British politics?
Ban the Barbies?
Must EVERYTHING be problematic?
In praise of being undiplomatic
The Falklands should always be the Falklands
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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
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas