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Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
The boys’ club
Labour demands diversity by design across public life, but suddenly rediscovers meritocracy when the party leadership is at stake
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal