The promised land
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
A second Northern Ireland?
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Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The simple joy of giallo
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From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Beyond Carmen
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Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions