Tadej Pogačar
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
On Eddy’s goat tails
If anyone can outshine Merckx, Tadej can
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue