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Battling the body
The David fiasco would baffle Italians
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
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Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine