Socrates
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Talk is deep
Thought as a social process rather than a private mental activity
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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
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Keeping us on message
the UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries