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Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
An idiot’s guide to promoting “public health” policies
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense