Allison Pearson
What a silly summer
Notes on people who really should have taken a holiday
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics