Lynne McEwan
Murders for June
The longer days can be just as dark
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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
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 martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Keeping us on message
the UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism