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Snakes and ladders
Only the weak and vain are tempted by lobbyists and the lure of a trip to the Palace
Dierdre Malone
Marginal Presence
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Against the neutralisation of harm
The sweet smell of success
The fragrance that introduces its wearer tastefully and without ostentation
Pray for the republicans
Rejoice in the sheer religiosity of the Coronation. It places the King above the political fray
The real coronation
Long to smarm over us
Part of the Union?
The SNP’s flair for self-harm is the last bulwark against Scottish independence
Crowning moment
The Coronation is more than a magnificent piece of theatre
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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
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.