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Bolton

Borne back into the past … of Bolton

Borne back into the past … of Bolton

Oh no, not another cliche!

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Michael Henderson

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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

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

Amnesty irrational

Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more

Columns
Victoria Smith

The case against recognising Somaliland

The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region

Artillery Row
Naif Alrogi

The vibe shift is a myth

Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

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

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Dominic Adler

To defeat populism, don’t start here

Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile

Books
Tom Jones
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John Self

Civilisation needs silence

On cooing babies and other noisy performances

Artillery Row
Alexandra Wilson

In defence of Lara Bird

There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence

Artillery Row
Jack Davey

Could the driverless car save the country pub?

Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home

Artillery Row
Robert Chalfont

The simple joy of giallo

Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism

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Brad Pearce

Our AI overlords will end bigotry

Bring on the machines

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Titania McGrath

Tasty tunes

The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall

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Robert Thicknesse

Two faces of America

Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)

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Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies

Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough

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Victoria Smith

Britain lacks a party of the young

Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests

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Sebastian Milbank
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