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UN-welcome in Ukraine?
Prevaricating UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is finally flying to Kiev — but is it too late?
What would Václav Havel have made of gender wars?
The former Czech president and playwright would have invited JK Rowling over for a beer
Amis at 100: a master satirist without honour
It’s time to appreciate Kingsley Amis — flaws and all
Lord of the Flies (but not the zippers)
Tribal warfare suits the chieftain of Tory island
Fake feminists are the real MRAs
The feminist fix: Don’t believe the dudebros who claim to be on women’s side, but want to take away sex-based rights
Fracking is just common sense
The war in Ukraine has injected a healthy dose of realism into the West’s energy policy
Who should run the RSC next?
Someone has to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
A death sentence for freedom online
The Online Safety Bill won’t make us the “safest country to be online” — just the most boring
Sounds and sweet airs
Classical music is flourishing in Britain — though if you listened to our cultural elite you’d never know it
How do we deal with war crime?
The horrors of Bucha have reminded us that humans are capable of evil on a huge scale
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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
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport