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Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
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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
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws