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Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The rise and rise of AAAAAH-ctivism
Not every problem is the end of the world
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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 case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie