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It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
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The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy