Carnival
Defying a pervert
We have internalised the belief that to point out the glaringly obvious is not only cruel but aggressive
Idiots and Italian art
I have to bite my tongue or risk being thrown off the flight to London
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Notting Hill Carnival needs to clean up its act
The street party shouldn’t be above criticism
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson