Caught in the net
The government is wasting money as people waste their lives
We must get serious about school absence
It is not acceptable for so many children to miss so much of their education
Britain must balance its books
We have to face the facts and stop excessive spending
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
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 migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Tome policing
Why are university administrators advising academics to get rid of their books?
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Not-so Natural England
Supposedly neutral institutions are increasingly behaving like anti-shooting campaign bodies
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward