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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains