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The brilliance of Richard Thompson
What sounds like two guitars overlaid in the studio is all coming from him
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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?
A plan to save our towns
Time for a renaissance in our devastated urban landscape
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives