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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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening