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Heads should roll after the BBC’s coverage of the Capitol Hill riot
Under Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s news and current affairs output has let us down again and again
The MAGA mob
Was it worth it?
The lesser-known Orwell: are his novels deserving of reappraisal?
George Orwell has a gift for the unusual and the memorable that means that even his half-forgotten novels are well worth discovering once again
It is time to take back control of our airwaves
There is no reason why broadcasters should not be like newspapers: free to say what they like, within the law
Without fear or favour
The police have traded impartiality for the praise of special interest groups
Meet me at Ronnie’s
A new BBC documentary captures the spirit of the club that made London a global hub for jazz
Black gold
Compost is the heart of a garden, says Hephzibah Anderson
Lockdown III – how will it end?
Why most Tory lockdown sceptics have not opposed the new lockdown
Is Boris immune to Tory MPs?
The Kent Covid is moving the goalposts
A year of Black Wednesdays?
The CRG deputy chairman on the longterm Lockdown risks
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting