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Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?