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The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
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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 pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic