Rory McIlroy
The curse of the Next Big Thing label
Picking sport’s winners and losers when they are so young is a mug’s game
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z