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How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal