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Milan

Altogether enough enjoyment

Altogether enough enjoyment

Venice after people

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Lewis Baston

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The martyrdom of Young Bob

On ebbing power of the political influencer

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Fred Sculthorp

Grooming gangs and the truth

We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal

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Ben Sixsmith

Babies need women

Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous

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Jean Hatchet

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it

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Robert Clark

Losing control of the narrative

The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration

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Sebastian Milbank

Andy Burnham’s immigration double game

Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice

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The end of corporate silence

Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on

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James Price

Auntie’s autumn

Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again

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Illuminating shady corners of the soul

Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within

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John Self

The strange birth of woo-woo

The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie

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The Reparations Game

Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.

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To defeat populism, don’t start here

Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile

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Green eggs and flam

A fine way to make herbes omelette

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Has the arts sector learned nothing?

Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal

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Lola Salem

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

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Broken windows

If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed

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