David Benedict
Film and music theatre
A marriage made in heaven, or one heading for the rocks?
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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
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
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,