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Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
How to travel in Europe
For the best in Europe, learn how to travel like a rich native
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
A good book about great powers
Jan Rüger has written a fine albeit not definitive book on British and German relations