Johnny Mercer
The usual suspect
Johnny Mercer is on the trail of who is preventing Northern Ireland veterans from legal protection
Can British veterans ever vote Tory again?
There’s only so much defilement you can take of the principles you fought to defend
Brought to heel
Go, Johnny, go!
Mercer’s friendly fire
His latest bout of unprofessionalism has not gone unnoticed
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long