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Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems – but to what purpose?
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
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A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country