Colm Tóibín
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous