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The road to Wigan’s tears
The Church’s drive to remake itself has been a pastoral and financial catastrophe
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Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
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Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
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The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
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Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
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The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
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The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get