Social Class
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Tom’s curious heirs
Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform
One rule for them
The crimes of the woke middle class come with the safety net of a judiciary that is in on the racket
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
