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Rail tracks

Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains

Tickets Please

Tom Chesshyre

Sausage to fortune

Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe

Sketch

Robert Hutton

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Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland

Why do only some killings deserve investigation?

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Jim Allister

Countdown to energy apocalypse

What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?

Features

Andrew Orlowski

Must-Miss TV

Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.

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Robert Hutton

The nurseryfication of culture

Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness

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Nina Welsch

The Royal British Legion’s day to forget

The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion

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Josephine Bartosch

The expensive problem with the minimum wage

Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others

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Tim Worstall

John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?

The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender

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Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn

The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko

Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland

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Ben Sixsmith

The opportunism of anti-police activists

Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable

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Ben Sixsmith

Soporific Starmer

The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness

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Robert Hutton

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