The Talich Quartet
A riveting selection of itinerant tunes
Gypsy Melodies (La dolce volta)
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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
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders