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Who can rescue the Right?
While Reform might kill the Tory party, it cannot replace it
A fruitcake rather than an egghead
Somehow Alfred Brendel managed to appear both deadly serious and not serious at all
The immorality of globalisation
Free trade cannot halt our national decline
No one should have to support the BBC
If the BBC is worth keeping, it should be able to support itself
Britain’s arms sales are its own business
Our industries — or what is left of them — should be promoting our interests
The road to online Hell is paved with good intentions
The Online Safety Act is a disaster for freedom and innovation
When the young believed in Britain
In the 1990s, Eurosceptism was the political cause for a number of politically aware students
Peston’s Inbox: Going nowhere
A city break, Ibiza DJ and very normal holiday
Remembering the American Civil War
It was not just a military struggle but a political struggle
VPN nation
Overbearing laws are encouraging a breakdown in trust
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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
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions