Tim Congdon
All sound and fury
No politician has the endurance, let alone conviction, to upend the Whitehall orthodoxy
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The problem with permanent secretaries
The role offers too much power with too little accountability
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge