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The folly of free trade project fear
Globalism has lifted billions out of poverty. We should shout its success from the rooftops
Doing the hustle
The adrenaline flows when you’re relying on your wits to save you from national humiliation
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The five stages of victory
A handy guide to tracking how gender ideologues are coping
Labour and the ECHR
Labour’s affection for the European Convention on Human Rights is on the wane
Cathy comes home
In Cathy Freeman were vested not just a nation’s hopes but its fears, guilt and shame, too
Don’t kid yourselves, Team Kemi
The Tories’ flailing failure looks more like performance art than sound political strategy
France needs a hero
All nations have known long winless periods, but the French drought in Paris has felt very long
Where’s Reform’s Beef?
If the rise in popular support is real, then Reform can’t be a one-man band
The ridiculous process of finding a new head of the CofE
The last regime handed the church over wholesale to the middle managers
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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
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
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
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Burnham’s beginnings
Keir’s out and Andy’s in. But will anything meaningful change?
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust