Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Resist the home education clampdown
Labour’s bill would turn home-educating families into surveillance targets
Labour’s assault on home education
Home educated children are disproportionately scrutinised by the state already
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Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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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
After the abdication
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The global risks of the AI illusion
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How Andy Burnham can raise living standards
Burnham and his team have a chance to change course, but they must be bold and take it
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
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La fille du régiment, Covent Garden
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon