Baroness Merron
The double standards of surrogacy
Why does the UK ban surrogacy at home but see no issue with people going abroad?
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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 migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under