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Cancel culture comes for Dr Seuss
Is the Democratic Party under Joe Biden becoming the party of banning books?
Conspiracies: theory and practice
Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about the many conspiracies and secretive plots that really did shape the course of events
Realism and realities
What theory of geopolitics does the Integrated Review serve?
Is Nicola Sturgeon Amnesia’s Patient Zero?
David Davis’s “whistleblower” has dropped a bomb. How long can Sturgeon run for cover?
Classic Dom
See Lee out back about the merch, there’s grenade keyrings and everything
Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option”
In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a “genocidal regime” which poses “the greatest threat” to international peace and security
Why does ITV insist that violence against women is normal?
Bruce Newsome says that an elite obsessed with social justice is failing at criminal justice
What is the point of the Proms?
The BBC’s new recruitment campaign for the Proms shows a clear disregard for its classical origins
Moving beyond the text
La Clemenza di Tito, Geneva
The EU is no friend of ours
The European Union’s increasingly open hostility towards Britain has deep historical roots, says Nigel Jones
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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
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss