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Two peers suspended over lobbying

Steerpike

Starmer apologises over banned TikTok dance

Steerpike

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should ignore Congress

Lee Cohen

Does Rachel Reeves really get more online abuse than most?

Jimmy Nicholls

The report that lays bare France’s Islamist networks

James Tidmarsh

Rachel Reeves is running out of excuses

James Heale

The problem with funky vicars

Gareth Roberts

Any other business / Why has Peter Thiel dumped his AI stocks?

Martin Vander Weyer

Trigger warnings are out of control at the University of Essex

Joanna Williams

World / Could Israel bring back the death penalty for terrorists?

Yossi Melman

Gut feeling / Do supermarkets really make us sick?

Ross Clark

Is Reeves’s Budget a flop before it has even landed?

Matthew Lynn

Half baked / When did bakeries develop literary pretensions?

Zoe Strimpel

Children should be banned from pubs

Arabella Byrne

Africa / Nigeria’s mass school abduction is its worst yet – but the West doesn’t seem to care

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

Diary / I regret my intolerance over Brexit

Anthony Seldon

David Olusoga’s Empire exposes the BBC’s history problem

Lawrence Goldman

The Spectator’s notes / What my pyjamas taught me about China

Charles Moore

‘Peace’ is just another ploy in Russia’s playbook

Bob Seely

Lammy to scrap jury trials in backlog crackdown

Steerpike

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Joanna Marchong

Watch: Labour MP’s bizarre Putin warning

Steerpike

Only radical change can halve NHS waiting lists

Druin Burch

Bad medicine / Why are we testing puberty blockers on children again?

Debbie Hayton

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Zak Asgard

No life / The art of having no friends

Lloyd Evans

Philip Pullman is right: Oxford really is a ‘frustrating and irritating’ place

Alexander Larman

Star power / Are we finally about to crack fusion energy?

Matt Ridley

War / A lethal standoff is playing out deep beneath Gaza

Jonathan Sacerdoti

American revolution / How to save the King’s English

Alec Marsh

Britain’s asylum crackdown is making Ireland panic

Liz Walsh

Real life / Why is Westminster Cathedral leaving Jesus in the dark?

Melissa Kite

The last taboo / Should this academic have been banned from campus for using the ‘n-word’?

Patrick West

Toxic waste / Environmental regulations are killing nuclear power

Sam Dumitriu

Home truths / Why would anyone live in a listed building?

Ruth Bloomfield

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Digby Warde-Aldam

How Shabana Mahmood can fix the police

Danny Shaw

Tory chair links Reform badge to the Nazis

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Trump team warned over London’s Chinese super-embassy