Football is a losing game
At World Cups, we celebrate and mourn
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At Ashura, I contemplate grief, suffering and resistance
While some believers view Ashura as a purely cosmological event, many Shia Muslims see it as a story about good…
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My obviously doomed attempt to run faster than a horse
Could a marathon across the Welsh hills be the cure for a fear of all things equine?
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A modern Canterbury tale
What has become of Chaucer’s pilgrimage?
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The guardian angels of the Thames
On patrol with the RNLI, along London’s sacred river
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EU again?
Rejoiners trek to Brussels in search of redemption
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For the over-forties, day-clubs are the new nightclubs
My generation relives its clubbing glory days
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Cokeheads and Christians: a day at Tommy Robinson’s rally
In the mad world of the British far right, faith and thuggery jostle for attention
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