Scandals
Reform’s gate fever
As they have grown more successful, Nigel Farage and his men have lost sight of what it takes to succeed
Racing’s omertà
The sport closes ranks against anyone deemed an outsider — including the criminal law
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it