Lolita
We can’t publish this!
The beloved classics that were repeatedly rejected
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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
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Country house colonisation
An attempt to achieve historical accountability ends up being an exercise in historical obscurantism
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership