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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
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Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law