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A very English revolution • America’s revolutionary achievements were grounded in conservative constitutional thought

The treason of the tenured • University thought police demand ideological conformity in the name of academic freedom

Out and about with B1 • Massaging the messages

BROWN STUDY

The beautiful game? • Not if you watch it more than once every four years

Style versus substance • A Newsom candidacy could trigger a Truman-style upset

China Shock 2.0 • The global economy is crisis-prone

Men without books • Teaching students to deconstruct literature impoverishes their souls

Bread, circuses and ballistic missiles • While Canberra indulges in political history, Beijing rehearses for war

The Burnham question

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK • THEY'VE GOT THE BAYRUX TAPESTRY. WE'VE GOT THE UNDERGROUND

DIARY

Circus trick • Can Nigel Farage take back control?

‘There’s going to be a big push to rejoin the EU’

Scroll position • Inside Labour’s plot to sideline alternative media

British policing has descended into farce

BAROMETER

All at See • The Vatican vs the Society of St Pius X

The Mancunian candidate • Andy Burnham doesn’t understand his own philosophy

City boys • The people who really run Manchester

Window dressing • Gen Z’s surprising nostalgia for the old high street

ROYAL NOTEBOOK

War is coming to our doorstep

It’s the rules versus the people

What’s the point of Eton? • The school’s new head will face an overflowing in-tray

LETTERS

Tales of woe from our demoralised economy

Beautiful, bedevilled island • Ian Thomson foresees communist Cuba reborn as a capitalist playground

A psychological puzzle

Dangerous liaisons

The Prodigal Veep

Conspiracy theories

The bigger picture

Artistic licence

A modern fairy story

The Stick

In the squared circle

Visions of the Odyssey • Can Christopher Nolan’s film live up to the 2,700-year history of artworks depicting Homer’s epic, asks Matthew Wilson

Exhibitions Shooting stars

Pop Nowhere man

Cinema Embarrassment of riches

Opera A hundred shades of quiet sorrow

Podcasts All American

Television What Katie did next

Theatre The royal treatment

To be trans Hamlet or not to be

Tans

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Kiwi life

Language

Super Rapid and Blitz Luke McShane

Elemental Lucy Vickery

2760: Metalwork by Madrigal

Why the left avoid heated debate

MICHAEL HEATH

Sport Our German shepherd

Menander on new leaders

Red alert

YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Nigel, my gigolo in tweed

MIND YOUR LANGUAGE • Manchesterism