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What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
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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
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then