Hooliganism
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
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Saint Nicola
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Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Calypso and carnage
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Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards