Ofsted
The danger of civil service overreach
How can working within the law be in breach of the Civil Service Code?
Exams are good for children
Lowering standards is no act of kindness
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
Sad Scottish schadenfreude
For too many nationalists, England losing is mistaken for Scotland winning
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security