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Many tanks
Ukraine needs the arms required to win
Punishing the innocent
Why must we shift the burden of responsibility for crime?
Boys aren’t losing role models – girls are
Responses to online misogyny have missed the point
Too sleepy to secede?
The Tory answer to the SNP is the nationalism of the land of Nod
Britain’s vanishing constitution
Ignorance is a useful weapon in the war on our constitution
A harmful approach to harmful content
Tory rebels should think twice
A California nightmare
What is the future of the Golden State?
Against the HRification of history
Hand-wringing about “relatability” divides more than it unites
The case for repealing the GRA
A category error cannot solved by exceptions
Censorship and the Holocaust
Silencing Bridgen for a poor choice of words is the real insult to the victims of totalitarianism
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
