Anne Enright
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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
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech