Russell Brand
Guilt, innocence and suspicion
The presumption of innocence cannot only have a strict legal meaning
Subversive man subverts
Russell Brand’s bad behaviour was rewarded by a progressive media in love with upending social norms
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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
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
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
