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Stop crying wolf about World War Three

You sometimes wonder if people who put together newspapers these days have ever heard the story about the boy who cried wolf. This was one of...

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‘Blasphemous’ drawings and the myth of tolerance

It’s often assumed and frequently stated that the biggest threat to British society these days comes from cultures which are alien and inimical to...

12.03.2026 10

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Why do Britain's councils hate patriotism so much?

The war waged by those in authority on those who make overt displays of patriotism shows no sign of relenting. This campaign against Englishness and...

11.03.2026 7

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Who cares if Britain’s Eurovision entry has German lyrics?

What with the prospect of further resets with the European Union, and with British culture seemingly in a constant battle with those who would degrade...

09.03.2026 10

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The real reason Greens are gaining ground

It was only a matter of time before an ultra-progressive, hard-left party with a fondness for voguish identity politics, enthusiasm for...

06.03.2026 10

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Were fans wrong to boo the Ramadan fast-breaking footballers?

So much of what is commonly understood to mean multiculturalism has in truth been class warfare by other means. A great deal of it has entailed...

02.03.2026 8

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‘Family voting’ allegations cannot be ignored

If allegations of ‘family voting’ taking place at Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election prove substantiated, the incidents will not only mark...

28.02.2026 10

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What Esther Rantzen needs to know about ‘religious people’

In politics, there has always been an assumption held by atheists, humanists and many liberals in general that those of a modern, secular persuasion...

27.02.2026 6

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How Britain learnt to turn a blind eye to shariah

The more excitable and less well-educated elements of the liberal left are forever apt to observe that politics today resemble those of the 1930s,...

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What Louis Theroux’s Netflix show won't tell you about the ‘Manosphere’

13.02.2026 4

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Would you be friends with a Reform voter?

11.02.2026 7

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Christianity / Why Gen Z is troubled by Jesus

08.02.2026 10

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Why Gen Z is troubled by Jesus

08.02.2026 10

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Keep out / The British countryside isn’t racist

03.02.2026 9

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Woke language obviously doesn't change the way we think

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Woke TV / Stop shoehorning diversity into BBC dramas

31.01.2026 6

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Will the BBC stop shoehorning diversity into its drama?

31.01.2026 10

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Labour is the nasty party now

30.01.2026 7

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Will the new Mock the Week focus on being funny?

14.01.2026 20

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Why are teachers so obsessed with the 'far right'?

12.01.2026 30

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Cadavers will always captivate. Museums need to chill out

08.01.2026 10

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Colour blind / Woke isn't dead – and here's the proof

06.01.2026 30

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Politics / Reform and the real populist threat

04.01.2026 10

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Reform and the real populist threat

04.01.2026 10

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Music / Iron Maiden at 50: how heavy metal became mainstream

26.12.2025 10

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Iron Maiden at 50: how heavy metal became mainstream

25.12.2025 20

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Do Eskimos really have a hundred different words for snow?

24.12.2025 10

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Islamophobia redux / The problem with Labour’s ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition

16.12.2025 6

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The Bondi Beach attack shows diversity is not our strength

16.12.2025 10

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Australia / The Bondi Beach attack shows diversity is not our strength

15.12.2025 10

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Culture clash / What Zack Polanski gets wrong about immigration

15.12.2025 9

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Gen Z can't cope with the real world

13.12.2025 10

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Pantone’s choice of white as colour of the year isn't racist

10.12.2025 8

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

24.11.2025 10

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

21.11.2025 10

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Stop saying ‘Our BBC’

17.11.2025 20

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Why can’t the BBC just say sorry?

14.11.2025 20

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Learning French taught me to love English

10.11.2025 10

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We should not need a court’s permission to criticise Islam

09.11.2025 10

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Red card / Why football fans stopped watching Match of the Day

19.10.2025 10

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Why football fans stopped watching Match of the Day

19.10.2025 10

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When will the Church of England speak up for outcasts and the voiceless?

14.10.2025 10

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The tyranny of ‘kindness’

11.10.2025 10

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Sinners and sinned / The problem with Lenny Henry’s demand for reparations

08.10.2025 10

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Law and order / Judges are finally rediscovering their common sense

06.10.2025 10

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The Bar Council’s black internship scheme is racist

01.10.2025 10

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No, Keir Starmer: Reform’s migrant plans aren’t racist

29.09.2025 10

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Papers please / How ID cards destroy freedom

29.09.2025 10

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Starmer’s ‘reclaim the flag’ mission is doomed

25.09.2025 6

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The danger of defining ‘Islamophobia’

22.09.2025 10

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