Independent Alliance
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious