The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
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Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
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Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
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