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Closet hippy of the SAS
Billingham is tight-lipped about his time in the SAS. His work afterwards provides the funniest anecdotes
The all-round smart cookie with a tin ear
Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest
Right-on cue
As usual, the Academy flagellates itself over insufficient African American Oscar contenders
Charlie’s cardboard feminists fall flat
Bad jokes, no chemisty, lame action: the snoozathon that’s not woke enough
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
Crucified again
Marcus Walker laments the new antisemitism
Triumph of the trans lobbyists
Julie Bindel on how transgender ideologists are winning the battle for media hearts and minds
Pursued by Furies
Neither Roy Jenkins nor Enoch Powell became prime minister, but they are our two most influential postwar politicians
Dishonest Abe
He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union
Judging the judges
The way forward is clear: we need another Constitutional Reform Act, writes Joshua Rozenberg