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Auden, Peter Ackroyd
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Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Romance rethink
An optimistic rejoinder to common dating advice
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy