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Drag queens are a way to ridicule females while staying on the right side of the tracks
Why drag is not the same as pantomime
In pantomime, we know that people are pretending
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
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The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
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England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall