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How the world turns a blind eye to African slavery
Investigating the slave-owners of the Sahara, where more than 100,000 people were born into inherited captivity
Danny Lestrange: Eternal Columnist
From the immaturity of young adulthood to the immaturity of old age
Can science hold all the answers?
Revisiting the thinkers who challenged the scientific method’s claims to have a monopoly on the truth and offer privileged access to reality
Time for a U-turn on “B Corps”?
It’s the business of companies to make money first and think about society later
Remembering an “effervescently affable man”
Kurt Vonnegut at 100
A colossus unjustly ignored
Britain has never warmed to Rubens, whose finest works can be seen in Antwerp
The boy who would be King of the World
Alex Rowson treats us to glimmering passages of life at Philip II’s court
Acute accents
Honours, parties and the case for jailing Brian Blessed
Doctor in a spin
West End zingers on stage now
Monarchs of the fen
Stalking muntjac and fallow deer in Lincolnshire
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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
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
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
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible