Left-Wing Politics
How the British Left triumphed and failed
Their ideas have failed without them even achieving electoral success
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
We do not need mass migration for growth
Critics of mass migration have to be careful not to concede too much in their arguments
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional