Pure Cremation
The death of the funeral
We abandon death rituals at our peril
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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 case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
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While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
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
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read