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The social contract is broken
The Budget also needs to remember those who pay for it
Puzzles, Picassos and prophecies
Untangling this jumble is aesthetically pleasurable, but vexing intellectually
The art market is not dying, it’s changing
Weakness at the top need not trickle down to the rest
Will religion divide the British right?
Using Christianity as a political prop does not help anyone
Forty years of mistakes in Northern Ireland
Unionists were abandoned in 1985 and are being abandoned now
Defend British sovereignty, defend the Online Safety Act
Americans have no right to dictate how Britons use the internet
The dangers of defenestration
Political instability in Australia provides sobering lessons for plotters in the Labour Party
A rustic restaurant where food trumps hideous decor
Chalet Nuah is not a place for the fat-fearing
Tripe is worth all the laborious preparation
The sagging, slumberous bed of tripe-meat just needs awakening
Moralism posing as economics
From gambling to billionaires, moral crusades are being dressed up as pragmatism
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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
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad