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Votes at 16

The astonishing success of the ‘Votes at 16’ campaign

The astonishing success of the ‘Votes at 16’ campaign

Votes for sixteen year olds is coming

Artillery Row
Graham Stewart

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The martyrdom of Young Bob

On ebbing power of the political influencer

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

Grooming gangs and the truth

We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal

Columns
Ben Sixsmith

Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?

He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system

Artillery Row
Ben Sixsmith

Babies need women

Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous

Artillery Row
Jean Hatchet

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it

Artillery Row
Robert Clark

Mass hysteria

Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp

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Robert Thicknesse
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The last thing Labour needs

The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together

Artillery Row
Adam James Pollock

Labour’s battle of egos

There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street

Editorial
The Critic

The Starmer strikes back

In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech

Columns
Robert Hutton

A memo crying in the wilderness

Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?

Artillery Row
James Martin Charlton

The case for compromise with Cuba

The strategic case for negotiating with Havana

The World at Large
Sarah Dimichino

Come together

Some political truths on which we can all agree

Columns
Robert Hutton

The Islamists’ young recruits

Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem

Artillery Row
Emma Schubart

Broken windows

If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed

Everyday Lies
Theodore Dalrymple

Murders for April

Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction

Books
Jeremy Black

Ant & Dec: heroically bland

Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing

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