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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening