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Taking aim
The problem is the way people use machines, not the machines themselves
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
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
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option