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Murders for April
The air is lighter and warmer, but Jeremy Black’s reading is as dark as ever
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets