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Cruel to be kind
Validating everyone’s wishes leaves us prone to outbreaks of self-indulgence
Sheer snobbery
Real progress will require more than BBC telling its audience about cultural appropriation in a Brummie accent
Freelancers cannot afford shame
Journalist and actor Denis Tuohy has written a rewarding collection worthy of his colourful career
The Trojan Horse of Stonewall
Why did the BBC give money to a pro-trans lobby group in the first place?
Now then, now then
Should there be a new drama about Jimmy Savile?
We’re us, not the US
Other than US media wages, why do BBC journalists want Britain to be America?
Did the anti-lockdown razor story really happen?
The BBC’s fact-checkers just can’t cut it
Parky’s great river of song
Michael Henderson on the old-fashioned music that the BBC doesn’t want us to hear any longer
The BBC can’t help taking sides
Planned Parenthood is a “rights groups”, pro-lifers want to deny “abortion care”
Resurrecting the great British sitcom
We are getting dangerously close to saying British sitcom itself should be off limits
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
How to reverse Britain’s nuclear decline
Regulatory reform alone is not enough — we need better governance
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Awards ceremonies are erasing women
Biological males should not receive awards intended for women
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game