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How has political reporting changed in the last twenty years, and is it all for the worse?
Dinner at Brasenose? Unmasking the Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister’s new book tears apart fake news and the notion of compensation culture
Democracy muzzled
Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values
Giving straight white men all the best jobs isn’t always good news
Why should we expect BBC lifer Tim Davie to end BBC bias or high pay?
What do Sinn Fein have to do to get a break?
The national media has turned a blind eye to Ulster republican delinquency
Still fit to print?
The rise and fall of the British newspaper
The great blighted north
Introducing The Dominion: trying to speak conservative to Canadians
Auntie Monopoly
It’s time to end the dominance of the state broadcaster
Keeping the lid on the BBC
Dissident voices are not being heard on the BBC, writes Robin Aitken
The ecstasy of sanctimony
In defence of Dominic Cummings, by his neighbour
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?