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I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Is Britain on borrowed time?
As decades of borrowing have left public finances exposed, a sovereign debt crisis is a real risk
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place