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What is the British Army for and where is it heading?
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unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order