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The hypocrisy of The Northern Ireland Office
They would never do to Scotland what they’ve just done to Ulster
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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
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
The problem with scapegoating social media
Social media has become a convenient whipping boy for Britain’s political class
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together