Alfred Schnittke
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war