Chaucer
Many lives of the first everywoman
Wife of Bath is a brand name all will recognise
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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
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon