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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right
Burnham’s beginnings
Keir’s out and Andy’s in. But will anything meaningful change?
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions