The Long Now
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If contemporary art is stuck, what is the fix?
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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
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
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 paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad