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Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
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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 Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy