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IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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?
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Dozing in the orchard
Chekhov at the RSC is a lot sleepier than it should be
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
