Leisure
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Ye new inne
Fiona Duncan looks forward to post-Covid hospitality
The joys of the virus
Can enforced idleness make us less stressed and more contemplative?
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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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall