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Public health versus the public
Public health authorities hate it when consumers speak for themselves
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
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Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
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Farage: I’m not worried
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess