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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent