Critical Briefing
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
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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
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism