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Grooming gangs and the truth

We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal

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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous

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Jean Hatchet

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it

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Losing control of the narrative

The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration

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The limits of choice

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Britain’s next moral panic

Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another

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The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority

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Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship

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The sleep of reason

Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.

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Helen Gibson

Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness

Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities

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An unholy war

Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran

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Killing the bill

Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.

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