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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
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
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic