The Smiths
How The Smiths were Marred
Right-on credentials are no excuse for elevating uninspiring music
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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
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?