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Can London never change?
Peter Ackroyd treated the city as a semi-living entity resistant to human intervention
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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
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.