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We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Netflixland
Against the flattened world of modern popular culture
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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 case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself