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Rough Guide

Why I still travel with my Rough Guide

Why I still travel with my Rough Guide

The series has no equal

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John Sturgis

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The martyrdom of Young Bob

On ebbing power of the political influencer

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Fred Sculthorp

Grooming gangs and the truth

We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal

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Ben Sixsmith

Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?

He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system

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Ben Sixsmith

Babies need women

Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous

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Jean Hatchet

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it

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Robert Clark

Standing up for cultural freedom

We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship

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Jenny Lindsay
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Why do we still have social housing?

A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate

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John Wills

Selling the commons

How Britain put a price on nature

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James Alexander Smith

Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone

The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive

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David James

Cloaked Crusader

Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord

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Conor McKee

The principles of peers

Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers

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Why we should explore space

Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”

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Sebastian Milbank

Against the censorious right

Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity

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Scott Goetz

Paean to a green and pleasant land

The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer

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Niall Gooch

American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems

President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was

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Auntie’s autumn

Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again

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