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Britain should remember a great neglected voice
The Romantic Resurrection
The death of art, AI and what comes next
Censorious sadism
We are never far away from abuse and ostracism
The Tories’ immigration muddle
Why the singular focus on small boats?
Marginalising the majority
Progressive rhetoric has a projection problem
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
A question of ideology
Psychiatrists must be free to challenge dogma
The sacred and the profane
Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous