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Backing horses
Britain should value a homegrown success story
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain