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How to beat Oxbridge’s positive discrimination

As university admissions have become increasingly obsessed with equal outcomes, many parents fear a kind of reverse discrimination. They worry that a...

12.03.2026 8

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The social media moral panic

There is rarely much to commend Keir Starmer for. But on Monday he blocked an amendment to the schools bill which would have required all social...

11.03.2026 7

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The uncomfortable truth about the new Mental Health Act

Three years ago, Nottingham University students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, along with caretaker Ian Coates, were murdered by Valdo...

06.03.2026 10

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The uncomfortable truth about the new Mental Health Act

Three years ago, Nottingham University students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, along with caretaker Ian Coates, were murdered by Valdo...

05.03.2026 6

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Fee and easy / ‘Yes, it’s that bad’: inside Oxford’s Saïd Business School

How do you get into the University of Oxford? It is a question asked by thousands of young people every year. In Martin Amis’s The Rachel Papers...

15.02.2026 80

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Labour is backing down on child transition

12.02.2026 4

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Fee and easy / ‘Yes, it’s that bad’: inside Oxford’s Saïd Business School

12.02.2026 8

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‘Yes, it’s that bad’: inside Oxford’s Saïd Business School

12.02.2026 10

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Trojan panda / The Chinese takeover of Britain’s public schools

22.01.2026 30

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The Chinese takeover of Britain’s public schools

22.01.2026 20

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Sandie Peggie and a chilling step backwards for women’s rights

11.12.2025 10

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Wed flag / Are you too cool for marriage?

01.12.2025 10

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Are you too cool for marriage?

27.11.2025 10

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Are refugees really worth £266,000 each to the UK economy?

18.11.2025 9

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Revealed: the bias of the BBC News app

13.11.2025 10

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Labour has surrendered to the quangocracy

06.11.2025 10

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Why Jess Phillips can’t confront the reality of grooming gangs

30.10.2025 10

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‘Trump isn’t easy’: Piers Morgan on his friends – and foes

23.10.2025 4

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Is the grooming gang inquiry headed for a whitewash?

17.10.2025 5

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What has Hollywood done to Wuthering Heights?

05.09.2025 10

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Artificial intimacy / Could you fall in love with a chatbot?

22.08.2025 10

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Artificial intimacy / Could you fall in love with a chatbot?

21.08.2025 8

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Losing the plot / Why Generation Woke loves romantasy

04.08.2025 10

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Why Generation Woke loves romantasy

02.08.2025 10

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Why Generation Woke loves romantasy

31.07.2025 7

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The Online Safety Act and the Left’s ‘ancient’ institutions

30.07.2025 9

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Art attack / Museums like the V&A shouldn’t be allowed to return ‘looted’ treasures

09.07.2025 10

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Crime / A grooming gang inquiry will expose Labour’s guilty men

17.06.2025 7

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The next front in the gender wars

29.05.2025 10

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King’s College Cambridge is wrong to cut ties with arms firms

22.05.2025 9

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Gender ideology is still dictating NHS policy

16.05.2025 10

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The Tate Modern has lost its sense of purpose

12.05.2025 10

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Ministers must now stand up for women’s rights

16.04.2025 7

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Museums need a new approach to restitution 

14.04.2025 10

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Have we reached peak EDI?

13.03.2025 10

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