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October 2020: Letters to the Editor

October 2020: Letters to the Editor

Damned by his own words

Letters
The Critic

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The martyrdom of Young Bob

On ebbing power of the political influencer

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

Losing control of the narrative

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

Columns
Sebastian Milbank

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

Artillery Row
Jean Hatchet

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

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

Artillery Row
Robert Clark

Hope and stories

Bicinia (Claves)

Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Norman Lebrecht
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Eulogy for rural life

A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain

Books
Richard Negus

Unreadable red bile

This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous

Books
David James

Fit for a queen

Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven

Columns
Hannah Betts

Civilisation needs silence

On cooing babies and other noisy performances

Artillery Row
Alexandra Wilson

Escape to the country

Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day

Table Talk
Claudia Savage-Gore

The right does not need religion

We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival

Artillery Row
Tom Jones

The forlorn hope of growth

Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich

Features
Henry Hill

The NHS is no longer above question

People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws

Artillery Row
Kristian Niemietz

What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?

Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe

Columns
Will Collins

Labour’s battle of egos

There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street

Editorial
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