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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive