Times Literary Supplement
Life gets worse for verse
Poetry has been put through the academic wringer and obfuscated by jargon
Who let the dons out?
Leave literary reviews to reviewers rather than score-settling academics
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How religion shapes football fandom
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair