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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
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself