Black Comedy
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
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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
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border