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Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
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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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests