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Jury’s out
Reducing jury trials would reduce the legal backlog, but at what cost?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid