Cornelia van der Poll
Cornelia van der Poll is a Lecturer in Ancient Greek at Oxford.
Restore Trust
Many members have decided to walk away and leave the National Trust to its fate. They need to come back
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
