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The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Cringing at the cliffedge
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Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Unionists should unite
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French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies