Colm Tóibín
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling