Critical Mash
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy