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Where there’s a Will…
If plum roles started being handed out on the random basis of “artistic merit”, anarchy would surely reign…
Handle this situation maturely
Or chaos with Ed Miliband
Getting the barnacles off
Simon Hoare and David Hoey debate the merits of the Northern Ireland Protocol
Super hypocrites
Spare us the sentimental tosh about working-class sport, tradition and community
The Sport of Kings
The Grand National and the culture of horseracing in art and literature
Uncovering the GRU
The GRU, Unit 29155 of Russia’s military intelligence service, is a remarkable failure of counterintelligence and politics from the West, says James Snell
Dom’s People
Tinker Tailor Soldier Twat
Is it time to get our thinking caps on?
Rev Steve Morris explains how we can repurpose the smoking cap away from the dandies and back to functional wear
The finest actress of her generation
How Helen McCrory blazed through her life and career like a comet
Vaccination narratives
The evolution of vaccine rollouts and the reliance on mass-media, advertising and celebrity cameos
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism