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Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
