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Ireland’s growing democratic deficit
Restrictionists and social conservatives are not being represented
Christians need imagination in the modern world
Why evangelicals in bright blazers won’t save Christian politics
Life in the press gang
A scattergun memoir with the decline of newspapers as gloomy backdrop
Making a splash
A new book marks 150 years since the first unaided Channel swim
On giving up my smartphone
Giving up your device isn’t liberating. It’s tedious.
The war on vapes is plain stupid
Plain packaging will not stop people from vaping — and it is wrong to demand it
Compulsory purchase orders are legalised theft
Expanding housing must not come at the expense of respecting private property
The liberal centre has run out of ideas on immigration
The case for the status quo on mass migration has been comprehensively refuted
Rough justice in the criminal appeals system
Mooted reforms would lead to more appeals — and cost more money
When Shakespeare met Marlowe
Born With Teeth is not so much serious drama as high-class fan fiction
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
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?
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one