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Political Islam is already in Britain
Lutfur Rahman and the case study of Tower Hamlets
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses