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The migrant hotel protests are different this time
Protestors want to change the law, not to break the law
Kemi Badenoch should support real healthcare reform
Doctors walking out is just a symptom of deep institutional pathologies
Ozempic games
Corpulent comrades have singularly failed to play the persecuted minority card
The fading flame of fellowship
An institution at the heart of Oxbridge colleges is in grave danger of disappearing
On Rotherham and the reality of two-tier policing
Child rape is ignored while a Christian preacher is arrested
Charlotte Brontë’s warning to women
Jane Eyre offers a disturbing portrait of relationships between the sexes
Murders for August
A massive melange of murder mysteries
Rural revolt
British farmers are growing increasingly disillusioned with politics and politicians
Defying categorisation
Valentin Silvestrov: “… flowering over Lethe…” (ECM); Violin concerto (Naxos)
Books to transport you
Works perfect for holiday reading — you can be in two places at once
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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
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone