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Match made in heaven
Once a habit that cut across class, smoking is now masochistic comfort for the dispossessed
Cancelling mad men
What’s gotten into the Advertising Standards Authority?
Our children are too fat, but censorship is not the solution
We should educate children to make healthy food choices, not ban fast-food adverts from the internet
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem