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Liberalism’s graveyard
Afghanistan is where ideologies go to die
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
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 goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The truth behind The Salt Path
A rampage across middle-class rural England with the conspiratorial intimacy of Bonnie and Clyde
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy