National Rail
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Great British fail
Why state control won’t fix our railways
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
We do not need mass migration for growth
Critics of mass migration have to be careful not to concede too much in their arguments
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive