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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 migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The failed promise of Emmanuel Macron
He claimed that France would become a manufacturing power again. What happened?
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world