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Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
Forty-five years of excellence
John Self lauds a writer who has ended up outshining all of his peers
It’s not the Tate’s job to heal you
There must be limits to the idea of art as restorative
The mad mental health policy
Failures in legislation and risk management
England as it really is
US visitors may be in for an unexpected and unpleasant suprise
Wrestling with fickle giants
Why, if the Beveridge Report was supposed to cure Britain’s ills, do so many complain society is broken?
Don’t be beastly to the Germans
British conservatives have much to learn from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
Ethics? What ethics?
On the decision to allow puberty blockers for children
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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
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses