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Psychoanalysing autocrats
How the West tries to understand its enemies
Are the Germans doing it better?
Putting the UK’s economic performance in perspective
In praise of incivility
Je suis Nicola
The bore of the world
Give this one a miss
Mugged by a mud-caked spud
Farmers’ markets are a rip-off aimed at food snobs and posturing fools with more money than sense
A whole pot of Rosie
Drinks for a downpour
From Fatherland to Heimat
The changing face of German identity
No time for EU-bashing
Let’s focus on Putin, not Brussels
Less is Mordaunt
A miserably unsuitable candidate
Pity and terror
A powerful, moving adaptation of Puccini
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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
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories