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Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
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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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work