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A glove affair
Christopher Pincher on great glove-making
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country