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Trunk routes
Take your time, but do plant a tree, says Hephzibah Anderson
The Gove Accords
What is the significance of Michael Gove’s Brexit agreement?
The universal appeal of self-pity
Zeinab Badawi’s ‘The History of Africa’ (BBC World News)
Why asylum abuse will get worse after Brexit
The government is blaming international rules while under-investing in national alternatives
John Lennon: the first and last global icon
Forty years on from the death of John Lennon, Dominic Green recounts the tormented life of the last universal Western icon
NHS propaganda
No rainbow-painting child could possibly understand the relative performance, good or bad, of the NHS
Beyond parody
I have been de-platformed by Titania types and accused of every single phobia listed here
Spare the rod
Spoiled beaks and free thought at Eton
All the news fit to post
Are Freedom of Information requests really being politically policed by the Cabinet Office?
The child trans judgement is a step in the right direction
The ruling that under 16s should be assumed unable to consent to puberty blockers means that this unregulated experiment may finally be drawing to a close
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
