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The roots of school rage
The closure of grammar schools entrenched privilege
Who watches the Wikipedia editors?
The curious case of a carefully-tended article about a controversial academic
When the balloon goes up…
Can history teach us anything about growing Sino-American tension?
Have we lost our minds?
Our shallow and insincere public discourse pales by comparison to the bitter, but profound, politics of the Edwardian era
The keyboard secret army
The paranoid war on “disinformation” at the heart of the Government’s pandemic response
Reality check: Russia could win
The balance of resolve favours Russia
Surrogacy and the rise of the female patriarch
Most modern feminists blithely ignore the exploitation of less-privileged women
A gift to pimps and traffickers
South Africa still, in many ways, operates as an apartheid state
A defence of capitalism
Rainer Zitelmann is a rare intellectual
Can the BBC be saved from itself
The BBC is still mired in liberal groupthink
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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 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,
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
A good book about great powers
Jan Rüger has written a fine albeit not definitive book on British and German relations
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech