Al Fresco
Enjoying warm hospitality in chilly Aberdeen
Al Fresco smuggles Mediterranean home cooking up to the Silver City on the North Sea
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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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country