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Space travel

Britons on the moon

Britons on the moon

Remembering a lost dream

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Tim Dawson
Letter from Washington: Team Musk

Letter from Washington: Team Musk

Why we need more Elons

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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?

He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system

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Grooming gangs and the truth

We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal

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How religion shapes football fandom

The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith

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Thomas Munson

Babies need women

Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous

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Jean Hatchet

The costs of independence

Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism

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Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone

The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive

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David James

Green eggs and flam

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One year later

Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere

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Keir’s logorrhoea

The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?

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Robert Hutton

Reform’s reality gap

Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up

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Critical briefing: energy price shocks

The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful

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IPSO has to go

A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late

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Peeves and a weekend in Worcester

Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty

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Tedious transgression

The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring

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