Seven plus
Applying in camera
Claudia Savage-Gore gives the seven-plus her best shot
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
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
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards