Leigh Francis
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
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
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was