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The problem with career civil servants
Officials have little incentive to deliver
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Burnham’s beginnings
Keir’s out and Andy’s in. But will anything meaningful change?
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Starmer’s Indian takeaway
The Government’s India trade deal makes hiring imported workers significantly cheaper than employing British ones
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party