Robert Thicknesse
Film and music theatre
A marriage made in heaven, or one heading for the rocks?
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited