Rhyme of the times
Within six weeks of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, most of Europe was at war
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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
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
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While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state