Central and Eastern Europe
The Hungarian model mirage
There is no foreign utopia for disaffected Westerners
Why we should be more like Poland
Poland is becoming the moral centre of the Western world
The tastes of Tallinn
British cooks could learn a lot from Estonian cuisine
Let Poland be Poland
Westerners are treating the country as a blank ideological canvas
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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
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion