Division bells
What John Whittingdale really thinks of the BBC
The new culture minister airs his views on auntie
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion