Regional Accents
From RP to cock-er-ney
Why can’t politicians be themselves?
Where is the West Country accent?
Once the BBC has finished buttering up the North, how about promoting the West? asks Roland White
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest