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Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
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It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
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Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
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The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
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Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
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The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
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