Miners’ Strike
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Pride’s heir
Removing Gavin Barwell sends a message, but Badenoch should go much further
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire