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No longer a nation of shopkeepers
Local authorities support rack-renting landlords instead of small traders
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo