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Shipbuilding and Space are a British success story
How to buck the national trend of failure
The camping trip
A sizzling summer of sex has passed me by
Free for me but not for thee
It’s tricky stuff, this freedom of expression
Viral outrages
Why has a random act of murder captured the attention of the internet?
Watch out James!
It’s looking up for The Spectator’s TV Critic
Remembering Christoph von Dohnanyi
The former Cleveland Orchestra conductor died on Saturday at the age of 95
In praise of cars
Britain should hit the brakes on the anti-car agenda and embrace driving
The meaning and meaninglessness of military parades
A show of force might be a disturbing display of intent but it says nothing about military readiness
Labour’s housing ice age
The goverment is leaving potential homeowners out in the cold
Why Malcolm Gladwell’s trans retraction won’t ever be enough
If you don’t speak when it counts then it will always be too late
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities