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Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score

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By MICHAEL HENDERSON
| The Critic Magazine (UK) Verified
This article is taken from the June 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Find our subscription offers here. How does a fractured nation define itself? If we do not share a common culture, how may we come together? Can sport play a part, with “heroes” in search of glory, like knights of old? Every four years, when the football World Cup comes round — and assuming that England have qualified — there is a debate about national identity.
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Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover

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By MICHAEL HENDERSON
| The Critic Magazine (UK) Verified
This article is taken from the June 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Find our subscription offers here. Geoffrey Smith was not a household name, so his death brought few encomia. Andy Kershaw, who achieved a celebrity of sorts in his younger days, was sent off with many tributes. As Sinatra sang, that’s life. They were shaped by different clay. Smith, 83, the jazz lover from Michigan, was a gentle soul who wore his learning lightly.
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Spare me the adolescent mush of Dear England

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By MICHAEL HENDERSON
| The Spectator Australia Verified
The football season lurches into its final week, with Arsenal, the newly-crowned champions of England, trying to win their first Champions League trophy. But there will be no summer-long reprieve from the round ball game. A World Cup begins next month in North America, and dozy folk who fail to pay attention may hear a knock on the door at midnight. Only 48 teams this time. What fun. If there’s a World Cup you can bet your last farthing there will be a ‘conversation’ about ‘national identity’.
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