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Oval’s books go up in bureaucracy
We should mourn the loss of Oval Tube’s book swap library
The Boriswave hasn’t even hit the shore
If new migration rules aren’t applied retrospectively, the Boriswave could yet cost £230 billion
The curious case of Project Spire
How could a project so contentious be within the Church Commissioners’ charitable purposes?
Funding? Check your EDI policies
Rather than the merits of the research itself, it now matters more who is doing it
Lord Boothby
A sexually voracious bisexual buffoon who was rescued from infamy by powerful friends
Rule of the playground
Don’t run to the teacher if you don’t get your way in Parliament
The day of the drones
Ukraine has embarrassed the Kremlin and damaged Russia — but what comes next?
Labour has not lived up to its promises on skills
Bridget Phillipson must change course to deliver the change that Britain needs
Look back in anger
Overbearing sentimentality was the wrong response to acts of jihadist murder
Don’t trust the BBC on grooming gangs
Newsnight’s data on the ethnicity of criminals is obviously unreliable
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction