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Earthly pleasures
The thrill of digging up — and eating — the first new potatoes of the year
BBC butterflies
Trans charity Global Butterflies seems harmless — but are they really cuckoos in the nest?
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
Has the Tory left deserted Northern Ireland?
Conservatives must stop backing the disastrous NI protocol
Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements
Broad horizons
Libraries are now much less about places to house books as places for people to work
The farce awakens
Not long ago, in a parliament far, far away
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”
Digital dysmorphia
The internet has gone from the marketplace of ideas, to a marketplace in bodies
The strange afterlife of New Atheism
The once dominant internet and media phenomenon has given way to more agile secularisms, but its legacy lives on
Most Read
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war