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Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
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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
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
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
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes