Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
Heavy weights and hurty words
Simon Evans says Andrew Doyle’s book is the toolkit you need to think about at least one side of this debate
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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
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case