Artillery Row
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case