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Jerusalem: cradle of lost peace
In the Holy Land coexistence was a fragile dream, built on unstable foundations
Evening Vespas and Gelato alla Gordon’s
When in Florence…
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
Cancelled at Cannes
Sidelining the creator of a national movement is pure, unashamed revisionism
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
This septic isle
Malta is not a trans utopia
Michaela’s unspeakable truths
“Progressive” teaching methods ruin lives to make middle class people feel good about themselves
Going nuts in May
There is no dish that is not improved by hazelnuts
The German Reformation
Professor Jeremy Black discusses the effect that Martin Luther and the Reformation had on the German lands in the sixteenth century
Three act tragedy
The Wagatha Christie case reveals the addictive fun of gossip — but also its corrosive power
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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
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
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration