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Our “Nation’s Village Hall” turns 150
Anna Price tracks the emergence and endurance of Albertopolis, and how the Royal Albert Hall ties it all together
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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
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran