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Defamation

British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom

British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom

We need major liberalisation of libel law

Artillery Row
Andrew Tettenborn

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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Tame Impala fails to impress

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Lisa Hilton

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

Artillery Row
Noah Carl

How to fix the economy

A repentant ex-financial trader tells all

Artillery Row
Steve Garyson

How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer

A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall

Artillery Row
Arthur Reynolds
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Operatic satire is a Shaw thing

The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay

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Robert Thicknesse

It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism

Church establishment is still worth fighting for

Artillery Row
Rev Fergus Butler-Gallie

The last true Kapellmeister

Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all

The Critics
Norman Lebrecht

Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?

He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system

Artillery Row
Ben Sixsmith

The Ghost Dance of Rejoin

There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one

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Chris Bayliss

What difference does he make?

Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable

Artillery Row
John Wills

Tedious transgression

The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring

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Josephine Bartosch

Dining in a different world

Transported by a restored institution

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Lisa Hilton

Let’s give parents back control

We need a more pluralistic childcare sector

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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

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Chris Bayliss
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