De-educating Britain
Peter Hitchens’ new book details how the destruction of grammar schools has betrayed children from modest backgrounds
Challenging abortion shouldn’t be a crime
Shutting down pro-life protest restricts women’s freedom
Professor Gopal has the Varsity blues
Fighting antisemitism is not a “conflict of interest”
Vince Cable’s troubling views on China
Why is Cable so keen to deny the vast ethnic prejudices of the Chinese regime?
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The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space