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Labour is trapped in a statist doom-loop
Keir Starmer has a quasi-religious belief in government power
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Country house colonisation
An attempt to achieve historical accountability ends up being an exercise in historical obscurantism
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?