Mark Steyn
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Burnham’s beginnings
Keir’s out and Andy’s in. But will anything meaningful change?
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer