Sixty Years of Hurt
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
People who don’t much care for England are unlikely to understand English football
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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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule