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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement