Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age