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Hope and fear for Belarus
The protests in Belarus, like in Venezuela, may end up as a missed opportunity
A spy all along
Morton Sobell went on trial for espionage with the Rosenbergs. His devotion to communism fascinated me
Capitalism in a time of coronavirus
The economy has shrunk by a fifth – so why is there no credit crunch this time?
Super Thursday
The busiest day of the publishing calendar offers hope for some, but ruin for many
Protect veterans from vindictive prosecutions
The Overseas Operations Bill may prove Britain’s breaking point with the ECHR
The man who restored Japan
Shinzo Abe has led Japan to overcome its war guilt and emerge as a major global power
A worthy heiress to Princess Ida
Where has originality and character gone in the art of Violin playing?
PMQs: Bullying Boris silences his own benches
Bluster and evasion come too easily to the prime minister
Virtue Signalling
MPs get unconscious bias training, Terfs are sacked, Adele offends the woke gods and Stonewall get into Rugby
Against Protocol
Did Boris Johnson just announce he’s given up on Brexit negotiations?
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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
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?