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Misguided mission to explain
How can James Payne teach us how to use our eyes when he shies away from stating visible truths?
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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
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future