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Is this the end of Israel?
Those who now declare Israel’s “strategic defeat” aren’t paying enough attention
The revenge of the Blob
Mercurius Cantabrigiensis laments the bias in the public appointments system
Blood, squalor, and a taste of things to come
Japan’s brutal invasion of China witnessed by four very different literary adventurers
Gods and monsters
The chequered history of Europe’s monarchs and dictators
Steve Coogan and the phantom of Sellers
Denied the chance to play his comedy idol in a biopic, the Alan Partridge star has found another way
Finding true north
Quite unintentionally, Trump has provoked a revival in Canadian nationalism
Bust the big tech cartel
Google and Meta’s market-rigging costs every household around £1,000 a year
Is it a no-go for NATO?
American conservatives are more worried about domestic concerns
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
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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
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families