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You had to be there
Riotous good fun for someone in No 10
A city of SpAds
Giving up on London is not a capital idea
The future of the Conservative Party
John Bowers reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
A flawed first draft of history
Theresa May’s former political secretary on the biography that doesn’t get her right
Schools gone woke: a view from America
In a warning to teachers around the world, one American teacher opens up about the invasion of woke orthodoxy in the education sector
No news is bad news
Claudia Savage-Gore is trapped in remote learning hell with an incontinent pooch
Psychology of Extremism
Ngo’s book is the accurate reporting of a political reality systematically ignored by almost every newspaper and network
Stolen glories
Alexander Adams delves into two new books that examine the art theft of occupying armies in two different ages
Classic Dom
See Lee out back about the merch, there’s grenade keyrings and everything
The Earl of Leicester vs Wells Harbour Railway
The debacle involving Holkham Estate and Wells Harbour Railway is the latest example of the cultural erosion of British towns
A year of fear
Dr Gary Sidley analyses the language of fear that has been peddled throughout the pandemic
Amnesty International is wrong to brand Alexei Navalny an anti-hero
The response to the political plight of Navalny has demonstrated that many civil rights organisations are neither principled nor brave
New universities in the early Eighties: an elegy
Steve Morris reflects on his time at the University of East Anglia with his contemporary, Iain Dale
Riotous isle of vanilla gangsters, lemurs and a DJ president
In his new book on Madagascar, John Gimlette tells of trouble in paradise