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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
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
A lesson from a century ago
In Helskini, architect Alvar Aalto is treated, for good reasons, as a national hero
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Why Devon is saying no to a data centre
It would transform the local environment, and the local economy, for the worse
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting