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Moral panic over Ukraine risks nuclear war
Putin is not Hitler, but if we lose perspective we risk pushing him to reckless extremes
No, THIS is hardcore: UK82 remembered 40 years on
What happened to the early eighties world of doc martins and Mohawks?
Putin’s megalomania is encountering reality
Campaign diary: Russian propaganda has gone from scalpel to sledgehammer
Very essence of a Jewish writer’s life
Howard Jacobson stands his life on its head
Writing outside the box
Elena Ferrante’s essay collection is an exploration of the delights and constraints of form
Ligeti and Kodaly: Lux Aeterna (OUR Recordings)
The otherworldly and the down-to-earth
Singles club
There’s a strange delight in the commercially unviable single chair
Crumbling is not an instant’s act
A new exhibition revels in the intricacies and drama of architectural drawings — and the ruins of buildings they leave behind
Women won’t wheesht
Scottish women will not be shutting up about sex-based rights
A trip to Heaney country
The fiftieth anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s Wintering Out is a chance to recognise the importance of place to his poetry
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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
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre