Columns
On Lying
The line between dishonesty and stupidity can be difficult to spot
Sing when you’re sinning
Football may be the new religion, but it faces the same challenges as the old
The magic of the games
The Olympics have a weird and wonderful history
Disunited kingdom – and all the better for it
Boris Johnson’s ‘one great indivisible United Kingdom’ is neither one, nor indivisible, nor united
Scheherazade scoops the pot
Women now dominate the literary landscape
Enduring enjoyment
The nostalgia of live sport continues to live on
Breaking the doom loop
If we don’t return to normal now, when can we?
Breaking the Knee
The story of a man who once held his hand to the Olympic fire
A correctional facility
Who, exactly, is being corrected by an execution?
Institutional amnesia
Central bankers have forgotten the crucial monetary lessons of the past
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
