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Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions