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Schools out: the dissolution of private education

St Joseph’s College in Reading survived two world wars, the Great Depression and a pandemic. But it could not weather two years under this Labour...

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Trans rights / The fuss over gay conversion therapy is a charade

Politicians love banning things. Even if the threats they worry about don’t actually exist. In February 2019, amid Conservative defections and the...

08.07.2026 10

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Lara Brown

The fuss over gay conversion therapy is a charade

Politicians love banning things. Even if the threats they worry about don’t actually exist. In February 2019, amid Conservative defections and the...

03.07.2026 20

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Lara Brown

The fuss over gay conversion therapy is a charade

Politicians love banning things. Even if the threats they worry about don’t actually exist. In February 2019, amid Conservative defections and the...

02.07.2026 10

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Lara Brown

Why is Baroness Cass backing another puberty blocker trial?

Baroness Cass has long been hailed as a figure who restored sense to the battle over child transition. Her report on NHS gender identity...

24.06.2026 20

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Was Brexit a mistake?

Next week, we will celebrate a decade since the Brexit vote. The decade that followed was one of political turmoil: five prime ministers in just twice...

18.06.2026 10

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A solid 2:1 / Revealed: Andy Burnham’s reassuringly bland Cambridge years

There appears to be a missing chapter in the story of Andy Burnham. Depending on the whims of voters in Makerfield, Britain could soon have its first...

15.06.2026 10

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Lara Brown

A solid 2:1 / Revealed: Andy Burnham’s reassuringly bland Cambridge years

There appears to be a missing chapter in the story of Andy Burnham. Depending on the whims of voters in Makerfield, Britain could soon have its first...

11.06.2026 20

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Lara Brown

Revealed: Andy Burnham’s reassuringly bland Cambridge years

There appears to be a missing chapter in the story of Andy Burnham. Depending on the whims of voters in Makerfield, Britain could soon have its first...

11.06.2026 30

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Will Arts Council England finally stop funding hate?

It took the stabbing of two Jews in Golders Green to bring Arts Council England’s decade of funding hate to a close. On Tuesday, Keir Starmer...

05.05.2026 20

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The high court has undermined freedom of speech in universities

Maybe sex realists really are winning the gender wars. But for every two steps we take forward we are relentlessly pushed at least one back. The most...

01.05.2026 20

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The Fight for the Right: Conservatives vs Reform

On 7 May there will be no competition. Reform is predicted to pull off sweeping victories in councils across the country, while the Tories are...

29.04.2026 20

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The hidden truth about our failing universities

Is it worth going to university? Since 1999, when Tony Blair declared higher education the answer to all society’s problems, it has been a question...

21.03.2026 30

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Degrees of failure / The hidden truth about our failing universities

Is it worth going to university? Since 1999, when Tony Blair declared higher education the answer to all society’s problems, it has been a question...

19.03.2026 30

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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 50

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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 30

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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 40

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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 20

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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...

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Labour is backing down on child transition

12.02.2026 30

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

12.02.2026 60

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

12.02.2026 30

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

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The Chinese takeover of Britain’s public schools

22.01.2026 100

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

11.12.2025 30

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Wed flag / Are you too cool for marriage?

01.12.2025 30

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Are you too cool for marriage?

27.11.2025 20

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

18.11.2025 20

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Revealed: the bias of the BBC News app

13.11.2025 30

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Labour has surrendered to the quangocracy

06.11.2025 30

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

30.10.2025 30

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

23.10.2025 20

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Is the grooming gang inquiry headed for a whitewash?

17.10.2025 20

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What has Hollywood done to Wuthering Heights?

05.09.2025 40

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