Stephen Potter
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
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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
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism