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Cutting the silken threads
A new think tank can help a future Reform government escape the ties that paralyse Britain
Stay cool, Mr Trump
The US need not fear losing influence in the Middle East to Moscow or Beijing
Michael Wharton: satirist of genius
A satirist of genius who mercilessly mocked the modern world
A fetish that spawned a murder
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the first pornography-driven political killing
Don’t keep it in the family
The disturbing genetic risks of first-cousin marriage
End the fiction of fiscal rules
We need more honesty in Westminster policy making
The party that lost its reputation
Liz Truss is the author of the Conservatives’ woes
Who will stand up for “the West”?
An illiberal America and a war-torn, world-weary Europe are failing to champion our Western civilisational values
Designs for life
Four decades on, there is still much to admire in bestseller The Englishman’s Room
A playwright without heirs
The quintessential intellectual, Tom Stoppard convinces theatregoers they are far cleverer and better-read than they actually are
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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
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons