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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
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
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves