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Fur Farming

The Polish Government’s animal welfare plans have created a political crisis

The Polish Government’s animal welfare plans have created a political crisis

Poland votes to ban fur farming and ritual slaughter

Artillery Row
Ben Sixsmith

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The martyrdom of Young Bob

On ebbing power of the political influencer

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

Grooming gangs and the truth

We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal

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Ben Sixsmith

Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?

He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system

Artillery Row
Ben Sixsmith

Babies need women

Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous

Artillery Row
Jean Hatchet

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it

Artillery Row
Robert Clark

Food pairing is folly

A warning against trying to match wine to dish

On Drink
Henry Jeffreys
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Why people smuggling means profits

People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK

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David Shipley

Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression

Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation

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Douglas Hedley

The misfits of Middagh Street

What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with

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Michael Henderson

Saint Sánchez?

How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power

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How the sausage gets made

On the illusions of evidence-based policy

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Christopher Snowdon

Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”

Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal

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Jack Davey

Undramatic life of a literary also-ran

Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature

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Jaspreet Singh Boparai

The problem with Palantir

The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse

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Samuel Mace

Profile: Alec Douglas-Home

The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country

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Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri

Outside the box

why traditional topiary is
making a comeback

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Marian Boswall
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