Madagascar
Riotous isle of vanilla gangsters, lemurs and a DJ president
In his new book on Madagascar, John Gimlette tells of trouble in paradise
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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
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
A bore and a balm
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Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
A below-par Riley is still better than most
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Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
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Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay