Paradise Lost
Satan’s sedition
Liberty, license and Milton’s multifaceted allegory for Oliver Cromwell
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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
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
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
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways