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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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then