I’ll Be Back
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
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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
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport