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It’ll be Gover by Christmas
Being PM isn’t as easy as Boris looked forward to it being
In-line, online, and where to draw the line
Notes on Colombo’s books and bookmen in the time of Covid-19
AA Gill wouldn’t have a hope in hell of winning his own award
Gill was one of the last of a breed of writers who wrote without looking over his shoulder
Franz Schmidt: 4th symphony (Berliner Philharmoniker recordings)
This is music that is going nowhere
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited
Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical
Royal legal cases: what if Harry and Meghan lose?
The Sussexes’ legal pursuits are less the straw that broke the camel’s back and more a gesture of defiance
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?
Fear, loathing and revolution
Was Alexis de Tocqueville the first social scientist?
Bred to be killed
The Captive-bred lion industry has been under fire for some time and Unfair Game will only add weight to calls for its cessation
Latex memories
Spitting Image (BritBox)
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
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology