Lore Segal
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
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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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale