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From Celtic fringe to Bible belt
Forcing the reader to slow down and sink in deeper
Nun gives new opera mass appeal
Heggie’s secret in Dead Man Walking is that operatic music doesn’t actually have to be much good
The woman that fought back
Aileen Wuornos asked me for help. She didn’t deserve to die
Winston Churchill was not Tony Blair
The great wartime prime minister was a complex thinker as well as a complex man
Should young actors copy Richard Burton?
His remarkable and unpredictable talent would be hard to pull off today
The rise and fall of English Lit.
Oxford showed little enthusiasm for its national language and the literature that followed
Time to start a new chapter
The rapid decline of reading should set alarm bells ringing at the Ministry of Education
Kemi’s open goal
Even Badenoch didn’t miss today
Review: The Running Man
Three endings does not suggest a happy director
The Right must stop playing the victim
Voters back a strong horse, not a plaintive loser
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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
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair