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Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
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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
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Hang up on Britain’s blight boxes
Outdated regulations are keeping thousands of redundant phone boxes on Britain’s streets
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven