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How religion shapes football fandom
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
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands