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What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
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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 sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself