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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 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?
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Stumbling in the light
J.D. Vance has written a revealing book, for better and for worse
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control