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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?
Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Why assisted dying failed
It was dangerous and it had no democratic mandate
The limits of localism
Why Andy Burnham’s localism agenda has a lot more to do with rhetoric than reality
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour