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The legacy left by art collector and novelist Hugh Walpole
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country