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June 2021: Letters to the Editor
Seasonal agricultural work is much more skilled and difficult than many realise
Perils of a cause célèbre
A patronising and draconian response to female genital mutilation risks victimising women who have already been abused
My FGM Hero
On the issue of sexual and other forms of violence against women, Keir Starmer has a sterling record
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)