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Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
The problem with scapegoating social media
Social media has become a convenient whipping boy for Britain’s political class