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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 great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic