Shoplifting
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within