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Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
The slain in Spain, and Belfast again
This police drama tidies up loose ends just enough, but still leaves the viewers wanting more
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Remembering an Agatha Christ-mas
What maintains our fascination with the worlds of Agatha Christie?
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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
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre