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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
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken