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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
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 migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity