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The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
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Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
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Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
First-place Finnish
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The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?