Hijab
No culture above women’s rights
Protecting vulnerable women and girls demands a firmer line on harmful practices and a clearer commitment to integration
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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 case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
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.
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off