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Childhood’s end
A medical vanguard aims to arm children against their own nature
The vampire’s mirror
The Undead: Dracula 125 years on
Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
Fat chance
Plus-sized actors and theatres rattling the begging bowl
The monster that lurks within us
The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel
Literary festivals: sheer hell in a tent
To make people laugh for an hour is good business sense — but it says nothing about writing, or creativity, or art
King of the clay court
On the red clay of Stade Roland Garros, Nadal is God
Whitehall shirks the blame game
Are civil servants the blameless dupes of “partygate”?
The right to a wrong-time to party
The Prime Minister remains sorry but not sorry
The Sexual Revolution has failed Generation X women
More freedom won’t cure the disease
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
People who don’t much care for England are unlikely to understand English football
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions