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Long live the yummy mummy

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David Shipley

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Steerpike

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Will no one acknowledge how Mossad helps Britain?

Let’s imagine that an international jihadi network, with cells in London and Europe, had just been busted, with dramatic arrests in Britain,...

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Jake Wallis Simons

Three bets for Haydock and Ascot

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Madeline Grant

England’s remarkable Ashes fightback

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Michael Henderson

Don’t write off Bitcoin yet

Bitcoin is crashing all over again, and it is taking the smaller crypto currencies down with it. It has fallen by a quarter from its highs, and...

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Matthew Lynn

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James Kirkup

In praise of learning German

The University of Nottingham, one of the most prestigious Russell Group universities, is preparing to close its languages department, as well as 48...

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Kristina Murkett

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Ben Clerkin

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Joanna Williams

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Owen Matthews

It’s time to dispose of the Budget

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Britain’s national security must not be sacrificed to net zero

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Richard Dearlove

Is Shabana Mahmood Labour’s Iron Lady?

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Pluribus is a mess

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James Delingpole

Disastrous adaptation of a wonderful book

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Are we finally about to crack fusion energy?

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Matt Ridley

The tedium of softboi rap

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Graeme Thomson

Ben Stokes will go down as the greatest captain of modern times

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Roger Alton

My teenage brush with a micropenis

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The best thing Cathy Marston has ever done

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London’s stupidest gallery

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Only the Tote can save British racing

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The pedant’s progress through history

Andrew Irwin

There’s no writer quite like Mariusz Szczygiel

Robin Ashenden

We should admire Shabana Mahmood’s political conversion

Stephen Pollard

It’s miserable being an Epstein

Angela Epstein

The Covid Inquiry has ducked the most important questions

Ross Clark

Nightmare / ‘Monster parents’ are terrorising Japan

Philip Patrick

Not There / There’s no writer quite like Mariusz Szczygiel

Robin Ashenden

Was Nathan Gill recruited by the Kremlin?

Owen Matthews

Road rage / How I drove away the Range Rover bullies

Sybilla Hart

How I drove away the Range Rover bullies

Sybilla Hart

Will Mahmood’s asylum reforms force Ireland’s hand?

Patrick Gibbons

Violent settlers must be stopped

Limor Simhony Philpott

Labour may have lost the countryside forever

James Heale

We don’t need white saviours to rescue us from St George’s flags

Patrick West

Inside the mind of a modern-day heretic

G.v. Chappell

Long live the yummy mummy

Arabella Byrne

Dystopia / Say hello to your AI granny

Mary Wakefield

Shabana Mahmood’s reforms are still open to abuse

David Shipley

Pop / The tedium of softboi rap

Graeme Thomson

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

Melissa Kite

Second MP quits Your Party

Steerpike

Will Starmer approve the Chinese super-embassy?

Steerpike

Volodymyr Zelensky is facing the ultimate test

Svitlana Morenets

Reform’s Russia problem

James Heale

Make education classical again

Bijan Omrani

Ex-Reform Wales leader given jail time over bribery

Steerpike

Will no one acknowledge how Mossad helps Britain?

Jake Wallis Simons

Three bets for Haydock and Ascot

Penworthy

The monumental self-delusion of Rachel Reeves

Madeline Grant

England’s remarkable Ashes fightback

Michael Henderson

Don’t write off Bitcoin yet

Matthew Lynn

Britain will never clear its debts

Michael Simmons

Food inflation is a ticking time bomb for Rachel Reeves

James Kirkup

In praise of learning German

Kristina Murkett

Ukrainians think Trump is putting the screws on Zelensky

Ben Clerkin

Why so many young people don’t have a job

Joanna Williams

Zelensky’s reckoning / Ukraine is on the verge of political collapse

Owen Matthews

It’s time to dispose of the Budget

Tim Shipman

The greatest threat to the economy? The Employment Rights Bill