Localism
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
The curse of super-councillors
MPs should not be focused on the local at the expense of the national
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Harassment at the NHS
NHS harassement
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide