Munira Mirza
Johnson’s better angel takes flight
Munira Mirza was the Prime Minister’s indispensable foil
The Marxist cell in Number 10
Adam LeBor investigates the former communist cult that has found common cause with the prime minister and the Brexiteer Conservative right
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets