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Trying and flailing
How, exactly, are we meant to avoid each other this Christmas?
Academia absent
The small-boats problem is ripe for research — why are academics staying away?
Brexiteers are losing the argument
We must make a rational and cool-headed case for why Britain is better off outside the EU
Human rights aren’t universal
Who has the right to chicken nuggets?
Losing Truman
This ghost trail is filled with false starts and made-up assertions, but it ultimately leads us nowhere
Timeless wisdom
Literary gifts for every gardener or garden-lover on your Christmas list
Why the gender war is also a class war
The illusion of autonomy sustains a narrative that is as complacent as it is hypocritical
How did Britain get rich?
Quests for profit, control and transformation were scarcely specific to Britain
We have to be Serious Sausages
Ignore the doomers — Britain can be reformed if we are mature about it
Celtic arcadia
Wales in winter is special, and there is something very special about an old Welsh longhouse
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological