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President Zelensky is getting bad advice
Trump, for all his coldness, is talking more sense than his European allies
JD Vance was right about free speech in Britain
But why did it take the American VP to draw attention to the criminalisation of pro-life thought?
Hamlet’s buoyant reinvention
Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy finds fresh momentum aboard a doomed ship
Dismal bytes
Despairing at “food” on the web
Ed Miliband’s undimmed Green zealotry
Labour insiders are concerned by the energy secretary
Trump’s poodle
Nigel Farage is talking about Ukraine but talking to Washington
Is Nigel Farage growing up?
His response to Ukraine suggests that Reform are growing more professional
Everyone lost in the Battle of the Oval Office
Trump, Vance and Zelensky erred and Xi and Putin will have smiled
The Brexiteer’s case for a European Army
Here, and not in the EU, Europeans will be better together
Don’t trust Labour on defence
Starmer’s surge in defence spending is all bark, no bite
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?