Simon McCleave
Murders for May
A look at some murderously good talent and some old re-releases
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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
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 martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety