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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history