First Flame
Puzzles, Picassos and prophecies
Untangling this jumble is aesthetically pleasurable, but vexing intellectually
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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
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them