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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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties