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Labour will never clear Britain’s asylum backlog

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Reform-Tory alliance would be dead on arrival

Peter Franklin

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Did The White Lotus challenge the trans narrative on autogynephilia?

Lisa Selin Davis

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Don’t expect Trump to give Derek Chauvin a pardon

Oliver Bateman

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Decolonising Shakespeare isn’t subversive

While these conformists continue to pose as radicals, the rest of the world is getting very bored of their antics.

Andrew Doyle

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New York Times changes its tune on lab-leak theory

Mary Harrington

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Keir Starmer’s welfare U-turn would be a fatal error

David Jeffery

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Macron’s Ukraine peacekeepers idea will inflame tensions

Bethany Elliott

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Trump’s Economic Revolution

Labour will never clear Britain’s asylum backlog

Reform-Tory alliance would be dead on arrival

Did The White Lotus challenge the trans narrative on autogynephilia?

Don’t expect Trump to give Derek Chauvin a pardon

Decolonising Shakespeare isn’t subversive

New York Times changes its tune on lab-leak theory

Keir Starmer’s welfare U-turn would be a fatal error

Macron’s Ukraine peacekeepers idea will inflame tensions

The danger of Starmer’s conservatism Can he rise to the Trumportunities?

Disney is lying to your kids Snow White hides the cruelty of girlhood

The paradox of free thinkers No one is safe from cliché

Disney is lying to your kids Snow White hides the cruelty of girlhood

The paradox of free thinkers No one is safe from cliché

Newcastle’s poisoned chalice Britain has outsourced its guilt

Will Trump trigger a global meltdown? The dollar holds the world together

Disney is lying to your kids Snow White hides the cruelty of girlhood

The paradox of free thinkers No one is safe from cliché

Newcastle’s poisoned chalice Britain has outsourced its guilt

Why the fight dog business is booming Dangerous breeds offer status and security

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Donald Trump: the new father of Canadian independence

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Can Andrew Cuomo’s Rightward shift be trusted?

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Canada’s false new nationalism

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Labour will never clear Britain’s asylum backlog

Reform-Tory alliance would be dead on arrival

Don’t expect Trump to give Derek Chauvin a pardon

The danger of Starmer’s conservatism

Will Trump trigger a global meltdown?

NHS puberty blocker trial should not go ahead

Why isn’t Labour scrapping non-crime hate incidents?

Starmer’s DC visit confirms Britain’s subordination

Gene Hackman’s death: a glimpse of Hollywood’s dark side

Germany’s misinformation plan targets thoughtcrime

Kemi Badenoch is turning realism into a culture war

What Suella Braverman gets wrong about Englishness

John Swinney’s trans stance is electoral suicide

Will Trump trigger a global meltdown? The dollar holds the world together

Crunchy moms aren’t scared of measles They have become a potent political force

China isn’t afraid of Trump It spies an American Cultural Revolution

The Right is coming for free speech Trump's campus crackdown is just the start

Aptitude tests are making us stupid They encourage workplace conservatism

The Wars for Ukraine’s Resources

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Syria can’t escape war Sectarian rage goes back decades

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Is the US economy starting to crack?

Ukraine mineral agreement is a bad deal for Trump

Audiobooks are not a threat to children’s literacy

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The UK’s Net Zero economy isn’t booming

How Elon Musk lost the plot The tycoon is flailing in politics

Hell is shopping centres They rob cities of their souls

Crisis: Trump, Zelensky and a moment of truth for Starmer

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Elon Musk and the return of Anti-Federalism The early republic has lessons for DOGE

Why Starmer is right about terrorism The lines have been blurred for decades

‘Islamophobia’ has always been a weapon Britain has given in to censorship

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Labour will never clear Britain’s asylum backlog

Reform-Tory alliance would be dead on arrival

Decolonising Shakespeare isn’t subversive

The danger of Starmer’s conservatism

Disney is lying to your kids

Jeff Bezos rebrands Washington Post as billionaire’s think tank

Sadiq Khan is preventing a London grooming gangs inquiry

UK’s performative Russia sanctions won’t deter Putin

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