Duress
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived