Gangster
The curious decline of the charismatic criminal
What happened to a classic British institution?
Gangsters by the Gulf
Dubai and the rise of organised crime
The mobster and the Method
Al Capone’s relationship with the movies goes back a long way, writes Christopher Silvester
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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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
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture