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A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
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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
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy