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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
A lesson from a century ago
In Helskini, architect Alvar Aalto is treated, for good reasons, as a national hero
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Why ministers fail
Even the more effective politicians do not have time to achieve anything
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”