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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 migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Haydn in the light
Joseph Haydn: Piano sonatas (Signum/Pentatone)
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth