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The samba spirit
On cachaça, pisco and the pick of South American spirits
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them