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The Green lobby goes quiet
Britain’s environmental NGOs once waged holy war on Tory planning reform — now, under Labour, their outrage has given way to a conspicuous silence.
The NIMBY menace
This is not planning, it’s a druidic biodiversity inquisition wrapped in DEFRA jargon
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
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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
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Tinker Bell, Puck, Dobby & Co.
An account of everything even the most dedicated fairy-follower could want to discover