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Hat trick ball
Help me trace Gunner Costello, the fast bowler who may have survived a Court-Martial
Twitter’s shadowban confirmed
The Twitter hack revealed the social media giant’s secret toolkit
The author who is ‘ex-Black’
Louise Perry reviews ‘Self-Portrait in Black and White’ by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Assassinating Edward VIII
Did MI5 let one of their own informants have a go at the king?
IDS: challenges to Huawei’s leeway “in play”
The former Conservative leader gives a damning assessment of the lack of strategic analysis of Chinese methods
Is it really game over for Huawei?
Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Graham Stewart discuss how Britain can pivot away from China
The literal gaze of James Tissot
An exhibition of the work of the 19th century painter James Tissot has opened in Paris
Orson Welles and Lockdown’s Radio Renaissance
I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions
Auntie Monopoly
It’s time to end the dominance of the state broadcaster
Why hasn’t Philip Larkin been cancelled?
When Larkin is inevitably denounced, I’ll be reading his forbidden work by torchlight
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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
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy