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An inspired cheat
Admiring William Webb Ellis’s “fine disregard for the rules”
Britain’s grooming shame
When will there be consequences?
A legal Trojan horse
“Conversion practices” laws are not what they seem
Britain’s communitarian delusions
Activism inflames community tensions in Surrey
2035: the end of civilisation
Where is energy policy taking us
I’m not an “empath”
Against performative sensitivity
Defend Liverpool Street Station!
Its charming character is under threat
Free speech: we should try it again
We must sweep aside today’s pervasive fearfulness. Instead we should feel free to offend — and not take offence when others treat us equally robustly
Bret Easton Ellis — the enfant terrible who finally grew up
How he at last lived up to his promise
The Blair phenomenon
New Labour and a new Britain — but for the better?
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won