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What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
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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
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
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?