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Letter from Washington: America’s pre-existing conditions
An unwell body politic must reckon with a sick president
My amendment achieved its aim
greater scrutiny will act as a discipline on ministers and their advisers
We have much to learn from nineteenth-century Russia
Since the Cold War we have, to our detriment, become increasingly blinded to the wisdom of the Old Russia
What Spitting Image did to British politics
As Spitting Image returns to our screens, its original impact has not been forgotten
The real facts of life
A welcome intervention by an author determined to return some rationalism to the trans discussion
Five go mad for fish and chips
Lisa Hilton enjoys a seaside hike, a bracing swim and lashings of warming tea in West Sussex
Nigel Farage rides again
The Brexit Party is readying itself to oppose a bad deal with the EU
Was Parliament more rebellious in the eighteenth century?
The latest podcast in the Black’s History Week series: How does the role of the modern MP compare with that of an eighteenth century honourable member?
Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?
Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks
The unlikely miracle of Trump’s presidency
Trump’s inability to articulate any substantive thought renders a respected journalist’s new book unreadable
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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
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
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
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless