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The gang master
Martin Scorcese’s new Mafia movie is the culmination of a great career
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender