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Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
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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
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under