Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
Benches without borders
From Gaza to asylum appeals, Britain’s immigration courts are making decisions that weaken border enforcement.
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Hang up on Britain’s blight boxes
Outdated regulations are keeping thousands of redundant phone boxes on Britain’s streets