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Goodbye, old friend
Parting ways with a favourite old shotgun
The most cheerful cup
Marking the 50 anniversary of a legendary FA cup final
Sport’s injury crisis
Sport is starting to wake up to its silent problem
The fast and the spurious
Suella rushes, Rishi fusses
A civilised discussion
If we are to defend civilisation, we had better pin down what we are talking about
The virtues of the boys’ club
Men need single-sex spaces, too
Reflections on a revolution in Westminster
Asking questions is the first step to finding answers
The lives of other apes
How to think about our hominid cousins
Snakes and ladders
Only the weak and vain are tempted by lobbyists and the lure of a trip to the Palace
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
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature