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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
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