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Borne back into the past … of Bolton

Borne back into the past … of Bolton

Oh no, not another cliche!

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Michael Henderson

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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

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Josephine Bartosch

Amnesty irrational

Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more

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Victoria Smith

The case against recognising Somaliland

The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region

Artillery Row
Naif Alrogi

The vibe shift is a myth

Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity

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Fred Sculthorp

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

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Russia’s useful internet addicts

No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values

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Better Slayyyter than never

Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it

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Sarah Ditum

Fast out of the blocs

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Rufus Bird

How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government

A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal

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Mike Jones

Peeves and a weekend in Worcester

Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty

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Burying their heads in the ash

The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won

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Christopher Snowdon

Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration

Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform

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These violent delights

Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show

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Robert Thicknesse

Women should not have to apologise for their rights

There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces

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Unholy war

The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself

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The migrant crime cover up

Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?

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