Lucy Connolly
Two-tier Britain laid bare
The British state is perpetrating systematic injustice
Groomed: the shaming of a nation
Channel 4’s shocking, enraging and at times nauseating investigation
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works