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Bring on the dinosaurs
For hardcore old opera buffers, there are still a few places of refuge
Hardy Perennial
James Milner will break Gareth Barry’s record, and no one better deserving
Why the Government won’t hit its housing target
The Great British Housing Disease has yet to be cured
Cultural institutions are erasing Christianity
To obscure the role of Christianity in Britain’s heritage is to obscure Britain’s heritage
It’s high time hi-vis visits were invisible
Politicians should stop using workers and children for cheap PR points
Enduring delights
The Box of Delights still charms audiences today
Spare me your “Books of the Year”
Or, how to come across as a person of taste and refinement in the annual back-slapping fest
The wonder of you
This party season one can very much sport what one wore last Yule
We need the freedom to criticise faith
The government’s “anti-Muslim hostility” definition is still a problem for free speech
Instead of teaching boys about misogyny, teach children about feminism
Keir Starmer’s attempts to clamp down on woman-hating among boys could do more harm than good
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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
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide