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Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
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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
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness