Dressing Up
Ties out, tattoos in
Whether ties are out or tattoos are in, there is a performative aspect that in both cases can hide a murkier if not awful truth
The devils that made me a dandy
Joseph Connolly’s enduring passion for sartorial splendour was driven by a childhood addiction to the glamour of TV
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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
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new