oppression
How the world turns a blind eye to African slavery
Investigating the slave-owners of the Sahara, where more than 100,000 people were born into inherited captivity
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence