Mali
The bid to stabilise Mali
James Snell reports on the deployment of British Troops in Mali as a part of the UN’s mission to counter jihadist groups
France, Mali and military coups
French interventionism in Mali has fostered little stability
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance