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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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Tame Impala fails to impress

unconquered by a
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Eating Out
Lisa Hilton

Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

Columns
Victoria Smith

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

Artillery Row
Noah Carl

The global risks of the AI illusion

What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?

Artillery Row
Matthew Kirtley
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An anti-gambling bonanza

Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

The Book of JO’B

James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles

Artillery Row
Michael Murphy

The name game

Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport

This Sporting Life
Stephen Pollard

The EU is getting worse

Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing

On Europe
Pieter Cleppe

Kemi always gets it right

Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.

Artillery Row
Robert Hutton

Europe’s French nuclear shield?

With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?

Features
Daniel R. DePetris

The case against Project Spire

The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling

Artillery Row
Nigel Biggar

Breaking the mould

The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking

Features
Sebastian Milbank

Police policies must be reformed

If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change

Artillery Row
David Spencer

The right moment?

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?

Columns
Sebastian Milbank
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