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Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was