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A walk in the park
Can late Elizabethans do without Victorian vistas?
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
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
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names