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Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
The cosy world of an Oxbridge golden age
Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A lesson from a century ago
In Helskini, architect Alvar Aalto is treated, for good reasons, as a national hero
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological