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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
We can Handel more
Handel: Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline &c. (Prospero)
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Pride’s heir
Removing Gavin Barwell sends a message, but Badenoch should go much further