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The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
