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Missing the point
Why opera needs fictional dead women
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT