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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 migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Burnham’s beginnings
Keir’s out and Andy’s in. But will anything meaningful change?
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Romance rethink
An optimistic rejoinder to common dating advice
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism