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Simone’s bile
Simone Biles appears to have misread public opinion over trans people in sports
Emma Booster
Her novels occupy the curious, contested space that stretches between literary fiction and commercial romance
In the grip of babies
The world’s most powerful men are disturbingly unstable
What killed English football fandom?
Fans are being priced out and domesticated
In defence of Gary Lineker
There is a difference between bad posts and crimes
The rise of sectarian social media
A sectarian media environment is forming to enable our sectarian politics
Britain needs Thomas Skinner
The country needs some optimism in miserable times
Let’s ban the TV
Television, not the internet, is driving people mad
Social media is just the latest enemy of public health puritans
Screens might not be good for us, but that is no excuse for a moral panic
Gary Stevenson is a new voice for old ideas
Garyism is a triumph of style over substance
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards