Miriam Margolyes
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
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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
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics