Australia’s Covid crisis
Australia is still standing at the gates of hell, while the rest of the world has already been through it
Doctor Who?
To save the next generation, don’t listen to the fans
Old TV keeps us grounded
What started as nostalgic escapism became much more
Stay home, win elections
Leaders that reject grand narratives in favour of what actually matters to people are rewarded
I’m afraid of Americans
The culture war is not left against right, but the US against everyone else
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Stumbling in the light
J.D. Vance has written a revealing book, for better and for worse
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous