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In defence of Kemi
Why you should believe in Mrs B
Ukraine: Masters of the digital battlefield
On Operation Spider’s Web
The Lucy Letby truthers
Many of her supporters’ claims don’t stand up to scrutiny
On His Majesty’s service
An insider’s view on the discreet and very English process of appointing a Lord-Lieutenant
The South Africanisation of Britain
The scaffolding of Britain’s state is buckling
City of the future
Birmingham was once an economic powerhouse with a proud civic identity. Today it is at the forefront of a battle for the new England
The maverick of Venice
Here we have a cultural ambassador for the multipolar age
The horror of greetings inflation
Social niceties today demand a performative jeremiad on the state of the world
How to ruin a university
There is a managerial cancer afflicting the higher education sector
Message to Britain: get real
We need a foreign policy that accepts the dark facts of international life
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?