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Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
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
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Nigel Farage is not establishment
Power in the UK is not determined by your schooling or your bank account
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Selling desirability
It is truthful to sell art as a luxury accessory
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Country house colonisation
An attempt to achieve historical accountability ends up being an exercise in historical obscurantism
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one