Varro
Varro and wide
The Romans had no doubt who their greatest intellectual was — the astonishing polymath Marcus Terentius Varro.
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Two cheers for Keir
Keir Starmer enjoyed a warm end to a chilly premiership
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Wit as well as social conscience
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Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again