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Smacking harms children
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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
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie