Stephen Jackson
Liberty in lockdown
Is it time to release democracy from quarantine and resuscitate the rule of law?
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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
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact