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Plastic pollution

Farmers need to get their own fields in order

Farmers need to get their own fields in order

Nobody likes a whinger

Country Notes
Patrick Galbraith

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The martyrdom of Young Bob

On ebbing power of the political influencer

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

Grooming gangs and the truth

We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal

Columns
Ben Sixsmith

Babies need women

Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous

Artillery Row
Jean Hatchet

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it

Artillery Row
Robert Clark

Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?

He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system

Artillery Row
Ben Sixsmith

Two false dawns

Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes

Artillery Row
Tom Jones
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Anyone could have predicted

Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism

Columns
Chris Bayliss

We have to tame Big Tech

We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage

Artillery Row
Josephine Bartosch

The testing of Giorgia Meloni

Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country

The Critic Essay
Nicholas Farrell

Has the arts sector learned nothing?

Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal

Artillery Row
Lola Salem

The Mexican baby business

In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here

Features
Julie Bindel

The case for vapes

Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour

Artillery Row
John MacLeod

Food pairing is folly

A warning against trying to match wine to dish

On Drink
Henry Jeffreys

Profile: Alec Douglas-Home

The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country

Features
Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri

The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline

For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order

Artillery Row
Charlotte Choley

Legal curiosities

The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries

On Law
Yuan Yi Zhu
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