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The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Clothes maketh the nation
How servants of the Crown dress is not trivial. It refl ects Britain’s decline
Belief and the Blob
The Bloom Review paints a grim picture of modern Britain
Radical chic charities
The madness of giving activist charities public money to oppose government policy
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem