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Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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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
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting