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Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
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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
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt