Tom Chivers
Bestiality is worse than eating meat
Tom Chivers is wrong about having sex with animals
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport