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The big lie: The inside story of the BBC’s Bashir cover-up
How the Corporation betrayed its founding principles to protect senior executives
The forgotten heroes of the Fourth Plinth
A thoughtful artwork that highlights the complex history of anti-colonalism in Africa
Elon Musk: worse than Hitler
In which Titania tries to keep things in perspective
How to drink port without the storm
There is nothing more agreeable than a glass or two of fine vintage port at Christmas. As long as it agrees with us!
Weighing up the real value of art
Why galleries are now cogs in a not-so-creative industry
All sweetness and light
Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives
Ideology+competence = success
The Truss debacle does not refute the Thatcherite principle of sound money
Country church monuments
The hidden treasures of English churches
A forgotten writer brought to life
Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then
A forever home
Architecture would be vastly more interesting if clients were happy to pay for character instead of accepting bland uniformity
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
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
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
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
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage