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The myth of the Larrikin
Barry Humphries was of a more relaxed time
The problem with Parris
Muddle-headed midwit journalists should stop dabbling in armchair theology
Raid homes to get back phones
Cops need new powers to retrieve stolen property
Crowning moment
The Coronation is more than a magnificent piece of theatre
Finding real answers
The inspiring promise of national conservatism
Letters for May
Arson, fraud and a little poetry
A real decolonisation dispute
Nobody has asked the Chagos Islanders if they wish to be independent of Britain
The kids are alt-right
Outside the Anglosphere, right-wing populism is a youth movement
Adverts: social justice education
Take that patriarchy!
Feminism’s dangerous false utopia
The modern battle for women’s rights has now fallen prey to a self-defeating brand of power politics
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
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
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?