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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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 case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber