Kim Philby
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
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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
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
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
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power