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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
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
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
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow