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Recognition that small is beautiful
There is no reason why we can’t experience the quality of buildings at a small scale
Britain has a public sector pay problem
The UK has inverted healthy economic logic
Let’s fix the nation’s smile
We must dig our teeth into the problem of getting people to dentists
Why are neocons still failing upwards?
A disastrous ideology persists despite decades of failure
The dark reality of cancel culture at Cambridge
Just reading a “gender-critical” book was enough for a young student to be ostracised
Expensive thrills
Turandot, Royal Opera
Crime and Christianity
Dorothy L. Sayers may not have been the most assiduous warden, but she served her church in the best way she could
The future is Chinese
The Western art world lays the conceptual ground for a civilisational transition, then lacks the critical nerve to digest it
Stand-up Starmer
Neither the Prime Minister nor his opponents can carry off comedy
Can we stop insulting the dead?
In defence of a neglected taboo
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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
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge