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This month, a Sunday Times headline dubbed the 34-year-old MP for Weald of Kent, Katie Lam, the ‘Tories’ new hope’. The piece described the new...

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Health tourism is good for Britain

Ross Clark

Is the rise of Reform unstoppable?

Luke Tryl

Real life / The failed evolution of the horse

Melissa Kite

The gamer / Why I love blowing up worms

Sam Leith

Books / Are Vermeer’s paintings really coded religious messages?

Philip Hensher

Fatal beauty / A love letter to Ronda

Jim Lawley

Reel life / Films aren’t art

Druin Burch

Dark days / Daylight savings is anti-feminist

Kristina Murkett

La la land / Labour is living in a fantasy Britain

Gareth Roberts

Self-inflicted fiasco / Only honesty can kill the rise of Germany’s AfD

Henry Donovan

Let it go / Admit it: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is terrible

Rob Crossan

Why I don’t like gigs

Paul Burke

Labour’s attack on Sarah Pochin reeks of desperation

Laurie Wastell

Reading material / Why the Children’s Booker Prize is a great idea

Sam Leith

Ceasefire / The Palestinian question can no longer be ignored

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Stop the boats / Labour is as much to blame for the migrant hotel scandal as the Tories

Ross Clark

Cosy crime / The infantilising cult of comfort

Julie Burchill

Ireland / Catherine Connolly’s victory was no landslide

Melanie Mcdonagh

Notes on... / Would you spend £30 on a Charlie Bigham’s ready meal?

Olivia Potts

Architecture / The triumph of classical architecture

Tim Abrahams

Letter from Berlin / My debt to the teacher who introduced me to Wagner

Michael Henderson

Off the rails / Avanti should get rid of its Pride train

James Graham

Kamala: I could run in 2028

Steerpike

Can Prince Andrew be trusted to live a ‘private’ life?

Alexander Larman

Revealed: how PM Farage wants to govern

James Heale

Rachel Reeves should focus on cutting welfare

Matthew Bowles

Milei’s medicine is working. Labour should take note

Stephen Pollard

Politics / Katie Lam’s trans musical raises eyebrows

Steerpike

Housing Secretary refuses to rule out mansion tax

Steerpike

Hadush Kebatu / Calamity Lammy had no answers on the migrant sex offender debacle

Madeline Grant

How the state tried to ‘safeguard’ Axel Rudakubana

Ian Acheson

Has there been a cover-up of London grooming gangs?

John Power

George Monbiot’s constitution is anti-democratic

Jimmy Nicholls

Since when did we ‘install’ an Archbishop of Canterbury?

Rebecca Chapman

The rise of ridiculous doctorates

Arabella Byrne

Music / Why I don’t like gigs

Paul Burke

Imagine what Enoch Powell might have said

Douglas Murray

Catherine Connolly’s election is a low for Ireland

Liz Walsh

Showdown / Is it curtains for Milei?