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How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
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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
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
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 right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers