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Badgers complaining about foxes eating chickens
Some of the government’s critics need more introspection
Murders for October
A cornucopia of killings
Mobilisation
Christ, humanity and war
Do UK plans really threaten the Good Friday Agreement?
Here’s what the boss of Ireland Revenue had to say…
Farewell to the flat
Bozza is writing his memoirs
Oh! What a circus
The mistake of choosing the wrong school
German foreign policy
Berlin’s Russian blunders
The conversion of Jeffrey Dahmer
How should we think about evil?
Grime and grandeur in the big, rotting Apple
The slick glitz of the UN General Assembly was smothered by a city on its knees
What we owe the dead
On the community of generations
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
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
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
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
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles