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Schools are pushing a one-sided view of religious attitudes towards sexuality
Oars and roars
Watching rowing is thirsty work
The university lie
Can academia still support meaningful intellectual life?
Letters for July
Anglo-Saxons, Clement Attlee and love for our mascot
Royals on the witness stand
Prince Harry is not setting a precedent with his recent appearance in court
The philosopher charged with defending campus free speech
Professor Arif Ahmed is robustly independent and not easily pigeonholed
Falling into addiction
Drug addiction is not something that just happens to you
Master of sword and word
Field Marshal William Slim was not only Britain’s greatest military field commander, but our finest soldier-writer, too
Twilight with Venus
Henry Miller spent the last four years of his life hopelessly in love with a Playboy model 60 years his junior
How the Bank lost the plot
The Bank was warned that the growth in new money would cause prices to jump
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
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?