Pharos Foundation
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
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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
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
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
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet