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Back to the future
Retro retorts and refugee rhetoric as Sunak invokes the ghost of 80s Starmer
The culture wars drag on
In which your correspondent visits a drag show in a church
COVID Estrangement Syndrome
How to deal with creeping authoritarianism
The emptiness of International Women’s Day
Against glass-ceiling feminism
In Sunak’s house are many rooms
But it might be a tight squeeze
Unsung heroes
Those who stand outside abortion clinics offer help as well as prayers, but buffer zones cut off that lifeline
Freedom for a fool
An Egyptian anti-Christianity activist should not have been imprisoned
The humanities aren’t dying; they’re emigrating
Humanities catastrophists are just professionally insecure
The phoney war on pink
Stereotypes, not colours, are the problem
In defence of narrative history
Stories make scholarship human
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
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf