Keith Ridgway
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders