Marcus Rashford
The Rashford trap
Rashford’s campaigning moves the state towards becoming a substitute parent
Sing when you’re sinning
Football may be the new religion, but it faces the same challenges as the old
Pitch inversion
Boris Johnson may rue the day he gave a footballer a gong for something other than football
He tweets, he scores!
Allegra thinks it’s all over
An away win
Can the Conservatives win on “Labour issues” like poverty?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership