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Letter from Washington: The perils of Flight 93 democracy
When politics is all-out war, everyone’s a loser
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages