dreams
Such stuff as dreams are made on
Common dream themes cut across vast differences in the waking lives of humans
A fascinating record of a vanished world
The delight of the diaristic form is seeing through another’s perspective
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
How Andy Burnham can raise living standards
Burnham and his team have a chance to change course, but they must be bold and take it
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear