maternity leave
Shock: there is a pregnant “person” in the Cabinet
Legislation on maternity leave is now drafted to apply to “a person” not “a woman” who is a mother
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Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
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I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
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Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre