Messiah
Militantly waiting for the end of time
Sunni or Shia, Muslim or Christian, modern or pre-modern — messianism retains a potent attraction
Running scared of religion
Shelley’s story prompts us to consider the relationship between The Almighty and man
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
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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
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration