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The gateway myth
Does one risky lifestyle choice lead to another or are some people just different?
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
International law, what is it good for?
International law should not be the sole guide to foreign policy
Getting a handle on Handel
Robert Thicknesse and friends reflect on Handel and his heyday
Reform is making a mistake on Iran
The party is throwing its weight behind an unpopular and perilous cause
A grooming gang whitewash
The Government’s grooming gangs inquiry risks becoming another exercise in evasion rather than truth
Stop bullying British expats
Opportunistic attacks on expatriates in Dubai are ignorant and obnoxious
Britain’s economy is in no state to weather another crisis
Rachel Reeves must stop doubling down on bad economic ideas and try something new
Yahya Sinwar’s historic mistake
The Hamas leader signed the death warrant of his own cause
What did Reeves have up her sleeve?
Mel Stride failed to knock the Chancellor off her stride
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans