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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
Why ministers fail
Even the more effective politicians do not have time to achieve anything
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators