Enigma
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian