“We did everything we could”
This book offers an insider’s account of the extraordinary (in)decision-making among Johnson’s team during the most tumultuous year in modern history
Mission Accomplished
Finley Harnett reviews the BBC’s Once Upon a Time in Iraq
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
A below-par Riley is still better than most
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Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide