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2016

Letter from Washington: 2016 and all that

Letter from Washington: 2016 and all that

Artillery Row
Oliver Wiseman

Most Read

The martyrdom of Young Bob

On ebbing power of the political influencer

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

Grooming gangs and the truth

We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal

Columns
Ben Sixsmith

Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?

He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system

Artillery Row
Ben Sixsmith

Babies need women

Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous

Artillery Row
Jean Hatchet

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it

Artillery Row
Robert Clark

Kurdish delight

Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories

Woman About Town
Lisa Hilton
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Britain’s next moral panic

Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

Offence archaeology and the future of elections

We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology

Columns
Chris Bayliss

The right does need religion

Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true

Artillery Row
James Price

Peston’s Inbox

Keir has my complete backing – Wes

Columns
Robert Hutton

Questionably loyal opposition

A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories

Artillery Row
Chris Bayliss

Fast out of the blocs

how to acquire an
art collection quickly

Table Talk
Rufus Bird

Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws

We are already endangering women and girls

Artillery Row
Helen Gibson

Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure

Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie

Books
John Self

Worstall’s Corollary

Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand

Artillery Row
Tim Worstall

Fence-sitting in a time of peril

Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war

Features
Daniel Johnson
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