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A grooming gang whitewash
The Government’s grooming gangs inquiry risks becoming another exercise in evasion rather than truth
British politics needs more Dominic Cummingses
You don’t have to like him, but he got things done
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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
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place