Liverpool
The spirit of Liverpool’s stories
Liverpool’s at ease with itself, the south should be too
Was test and trace doomed to fail?
If nothing else, Dido Harding has outperformed her European counterparts
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
A below-par Riley is still better than most
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