Emily Maitlis
The News Agents’ selective outrage
Grooming gangs are the problem, not people sounding the alarm
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
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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
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it