Can London never change?
Peter Ackroyd treated the city as a semi-living entity resistant to human intervention
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
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
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies