Garry Disher
Murders for June
The longer days can be just as dark
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
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
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion