The sludge of sensitivity
Politics is degrading our cultural classics
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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
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.