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Soft soaping suicide
Emmerdale’s coverage of assisted suicide was disturbing
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
Best intentions …
A woo-woo approach to summer fashion
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship