Christmas Movie
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
Most Read
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
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to