2020
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Varro and wide
The Romans had no doubt who their greatest intellectual was — the astonishing polymath Marcus Terentius Varro
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations