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Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
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Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Stumbling in the light
J.D. Vance has written a revealing book, for better and for worse
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Joyous genre-bending
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The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England