ohann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low