Monica Ali
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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
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough