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The death of an American icon
Hulk Hogan was deeply flawed but also entertained and inspired millions
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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
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected