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“Senseless”
Loose talk, as they used to say in the war, costs lives
The Hon. Jeremy Wellbourne
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The boat that sang
For one shining moment, they’re kings of the world
The bibliophobe barbarians
How to deal with the legacy of physical books in academic libraries?
Children of the revolution
How are culture wars won?
First signs of an Anglican spring
A mood shift seems to be suggesting brighter days ahead
Bangers with bite
Forewarned is forearmed, especially when the choruses come this big
Are we really “post-literate” now?
Literary culture has never been secure from the philistines, but better books need publicity
The rip-off behind the ritual
Old City’s “Buy British” campaign will deliver higher fees and sub-par returns
The sound of silence
Cricket can be at its best when nothing much is happening
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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 limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Two cheers for Keir
Keir Starmer enjoyed a warm end to a chilly premiership
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
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