Wrangling over the writings of a rogue
Are we right to be amused by the diary of a sexual predator?
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
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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?
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
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
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.