George Saunders
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
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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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation