Peerage
We are failing rape victims
The vulnerable are sacrificed to indulge the entitled
We need more Lord Lebedevs
Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage should be celebrated – other members of the Lords have much closer links to the Kremlin.
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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
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
