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Strange Rites

Tara Isabella Burton on America’s new religions

Tara Isabella Burton on America’s new religions

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Oliver Wiseman

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The martyrdom of Young Bob

On ebbing power of the political influencer

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Fred Sculthorp

Grooming gangs and the truth

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

Columns
Ben Sixsmith

Babies need women

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

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Jean Hatchet

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it

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Robert Clark

Losing control of the narrative

The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration

Columns
Sebastian Milbank

After the flood

Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over

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Rob Bates
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Norman Lebrecht

Tony Blair is an extremist

He should have left public life long ago

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Ben Sixsmith

The Farage flounce

A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.

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Robert Hutton

Why left-wingers should care about borders

A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism

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Aleks Eror

“Treatment” does not make child predators safe

People who abuse children must be kept away from children

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Ian Acheson

Are Reform the new Greens?

As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion

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Richard Negus

Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship

Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth

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Bijan Omrani

Form your battalions!

France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not

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François Valentin

Dear Prudence

A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism

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Jeremy Black

Sometimes look on the bright side of life

We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators

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Adam McDermont
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