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Vive la difference
Human reproduction remains unique in the animal kingdom in the intensity of care demanded
The shepherd’s dream
Giustino, Linbury Theatre
The many sides of Salome
Critical Mash returns!
The rise and fall of Tim Westwood
The veteran DJ built a career of “keeping it real” on pretence
Stamp duty is a tax that deserves the axe
Kemi Badenoch is right to pledge to abolish it
Britain is dining out on economic delusions
We cannot fix illegal immigration without facing some hard economic truths
Why cousin marriage endures
Opposing cultural relativism is no excuse for cultural ignorance
On Conservative hauntology
A ghost haunted the Conservative Party Conference — the ghost of what might have been
Please, no more “counter-culture”
The voice honed by experience is more necessary now than ever
The Spinal Tap reunion rocks
As with the original, at its heart this is a story about friendship
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again