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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all