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Hallelujah to that
Terry Rant
Ageing controversialist
Cheryl Partington
Media Don
A brave voice against the barbarians
David Pryce-Jones recalls a life of literary friendships and the defence of Western civilisation
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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
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology