Yale
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Blueprint for a starchitect
Robert A. M. Stern’s approach to designing buildings combines exuberance with historicism
Singing the Blues
The Varsity Match and Boat Race are no longer part of our sporting conversation
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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
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy