Lia Thomas
Labour is failing women
How have we reached a point where a former shadow women and equalities minster doesn’t know what a woman is?
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?