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The two-tier justice row
What did MPs think addressing racial disparities meant, if not introducing measures based on race?
Making America grate
Team US might need the commander-in-chief’s help to win the Ryder Cup
The men making the news
Pretending men can be women has been destroying institutions and women’s lives for years
The man who poisons the well
The idea that Reform’s election result in 2024 was due to the genius of Nigel Farage is absurd
In defence of excellence
The anti-elitist Left and libertarian Right are both wrong
How to get ahead in academia
The Russell Group is riddled with EDI rot
The long-gone queens of Grub St
In the good old days, powerful publicity directors could guarantee coverage for books
Mean Mr Sheen’s jibe
Held up as a paragon of virtue, he reassuringly confirms he remains as catty as the rest of us
The growth imperative
The best way to win back voters is to make them richer by boosting the economy
On Linden Green
The reverential nature writer
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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
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Lorna May Wadsworth
Lorna May Wadsworth
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
How Andy Burnham can raise living standards
Burnham and his team have a chance to change course, but they must be bold and take it
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing