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Justice warriors
Nick Cohen says pounding the streets brings its own rewards
Secrets of Portobello
Thomas Woodham-Smith treasures a classic antiques street market
Public Enemy Number whatever
Frederic Raphael defends his friend, the writer Joseph Epstein, latest victim of America’s cancel culture for daring to mock Jill Biden’s doctorate
Studio: Drawing US Presidents
John Springs on illustrating US Presidents throughout his career
Will the UK ever use its leverage against the EU?
Brussels asks Britain for an extension whilst rigorously implementing the NI Protocol
How the government’s maternity bill seeks to deny the reality of sex
The avoidance of the word “woman” in relation to pregnancy is part of a wider assault on women’s rights from transgender activists
Masters No More: Clement Attlee and the ‘Revolt of the Suburbs’
Holding together working- and middle-class voters has been Labour’s historic Achilles’ heel. Can Keir Starmer do what Clement Attlee couldn’t in 1950?
Using the Force against wokeness: A galactic scandal for Disney
The cancellation of Gina Carano proves that freedom of expression in Hollywood is increasingly under threat
What kind of government rules by fear?
The spirit of Lockdown has paralysed the country, and the government itself
Why the narrative on Britain’s role in the slave trade is misleading
Britain’s bleak record with the slave trade makes a horrible story, but it is one not helped by getting it wrong
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
