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The FA’s passion-killer
FA rules this season protect poor over-stretched bigger clubs with huge squads and budgets
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
Peston’s inbox
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
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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 testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history