Almanack
Cricket’s bible takes the knee
Michael Henderson says, hats off, everybody, to the troupers of the famous yellow Almanack
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries