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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
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
Varro and wide
The Romans had no doubt who their greatest intellectual was — the astonishing polymath Marcus Terentius Varro
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.