crusades
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Holy wars and unlikely alliances
The Crusades were not a straightforward clash of civilisations: both sides were too internally divided
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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
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
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear