The ecstasy of sanctimony
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories