Newsnight
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech