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The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
Forty-five years of excellence
John Self lauds a writer who has ended up outshining all of his peers
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
A shapeless, moving, end in itself
So entropic is Geoff Dyer’s latest that the reader seeks desperately for structure
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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
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
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.
How should Christian organisations respond to illegal migration?
It is wrong to think that Christianity demands that we open our borders
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships