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Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
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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?
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Reform’s gate fever
As they have grown more successful, Nigel Farage and his men have lost sight of what it takes to succeed
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent