Angels
Standing side by side with angels
Like Lucifer, Pico thought himself too brilliant to stand below angels in God’s Hierarchy
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic