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Badenoch must go
The hapless Conservative leader is consigning the party to complete irrelevance
Don’t blame knives for knife crime
We should blame the people who are using them and the institutions that enable crime
The Ukrainian minerals myth
Has Donald Trump been misled about the value of Ukrainian rare earth deposits?
The Council of X
For Stewart, theology is a closed book. Vance just tore it open
Is this the end of Israel?
Those who now declare Israel’s “strategic defeat” aren’t paying enough attention
Arnold Leverett: Veteran Playwright
If the theatres staging his work are getting smaller, the list of his celebrity admirers is still extensive
When architects meet their makers
Studies in the pleasures of timber, thatch and stone
Where are the Tories?
Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it
You wouldn’t steal an internet
If MPs just abolished copyright laws, we’d be a nation of billionaires
On blasphemy and bullets
Murder is a lot worse than insulting religious beliefs
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
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad