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Incel inside
The Russians assume we use Opera to project state power, I assure them that the government hate the arts
The long arm of the Chekists
This book is an apt metaphor for the state of freedom of speech in modern Britain
An unrepentant serial killer
The Happy Traitor tells Blake’s story in a witty and sophisticated way, fully alert to its complexities and ironies
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade