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Kurt Vonnegut

Remembering an “effervescently affable man”

Remembering an “effervescently affable man”

Kurt Vonnegut at 100

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John Self

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Amnesty irrational

Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more

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Victoria Smith

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

Who pays for Manchesterism?

Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets

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Shimeon Lee

The goading life

How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture

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Ben Sixsmith

The migrant crime cover up

Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?

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Rob Bates

The flawed thinking behind state suicide

Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide

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Dan Hitchens
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Can the army survive migration?

As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration

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Tom Jones

Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories

Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal

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Henry Hill

The imprudence of Dame Prue

Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide

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Adam James Pollock

Damaged brains and troubled souls

Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering

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Ben Sixsmith

Restore the King James Bible

Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken

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Marcus Walker

Talent and temptation

William Walton: Two symphonies

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Norman Lebrecht

Worstall’s Corollary

Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand

Artillery Row
Tim Worstall

NATO’s Ankara moment

NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA

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Victoria-Katharina Flick

Eulogy for rural life

A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain

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Richard Negus

Is football hooliganism fashionable?

As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain

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