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Welsh Assembly

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

Smart but ill-suited

Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create

Artillery Row
Jorge González-Gallarza
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An uneasy peace amid the ruins

Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring

Features
Iason Athanasiadis

The Bible in the dock

Free speech for Christians is still under assault

Artillery Row
Miriam Cates

Paean to a green and pleasant land

The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer

Books
Niall Gooch

The Boston barbarians

The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer

On Music
Norman Lebrecht

How the sausage gets made

On the illusions of evidence-based policy

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Bonfire of the fallacies

Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration

Features
Patrick Porter

On a wind and a prayer

Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather

Editorial
The Critic

Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia

The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous

Artillery Row
Chris Bayliss

Game of Thrones star steals the show

Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller

The Critics
Adam LeBor

Light my fire

A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette

Table Talk
Christopher Pincher
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