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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless