Jacques Brugnon
France needs a hero
All nations have known long winless periods, but the French drought in Paris has felt very long
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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
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
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport