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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships