John Macmillan
An entertaining oddity
If you can see past the water-based sex, The Lady From The Sea is worth watching
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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
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal