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The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common