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Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Most Read
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
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself