Ben Ryan
The post-Christian identity crisis
Three books portray a West unconscious of its past and uncertain of its future
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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
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 martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education