David McCullough
The republican “we”
The fascinating history of the American experiment by a pair of prominent historians and brilliant storytellers
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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
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
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
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions