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Resist the home education clampdown
Labour’s bill would turn home-educating families into surveillance targets
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future