Mr Blake At Your Service
The Spinal Tap reunion rocks
As with the original, at its heart this is a story about friendship
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport