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Jos Buttler

I didn’t like cricket; now I love it

I didn’t like cricket; now I love it

Making up for lost time

Features
William Atkinson

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The martyrdom of Young Bob

On ebbing power of the political influencer

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

Grooming gangs and the truth

We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal

Columns
Ben Sixsmith

Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?

He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system

Artillery Row
Ben Sixsmith

Babies need women

Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous

Artillery Row
Jean Hatchet

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it

Artillery Row
Robert Clark

Why do we still have social housing?

A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate

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John Wills
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The revolt against the public

The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power

Artillery Row
Holly Marshall

The Islamic identity crisis

V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity

Artillery Row
Ben Cobley

Dignified design for the people

A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers

Books
Amelia Butler-Gallie

Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check

Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Squeezing out your generation

New laws are harming, not helping, younger people

Artillery Row
Fred de Fossard

Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover

Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty

The Critics
Michael Henderson

The EU is getting worse

Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing

On Europe
Pieter Cleppe

Fast cars fit for old-school stars

Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street

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Christopher Pincher

Kurdish delight

Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories

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Lisa Hilton

No gods, no monsters

We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders

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Charlie Napier
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