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The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Most Read
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
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition