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

19.10.2025 5

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Why football fans stopped watching Match of the Day

19.10.2025 20

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

When will the Church of England speak up for outcasts and the voiceless?
14.10.2025 6

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The tyranny of ‘kindness’

The tyranny of ‘kindness’
11.10.2025 20

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

Sinners and sinned /					 													 						The problem with Lenny Henry’s demand for reparations
08.10.2025 9

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Law and order / Judges are finally rediscovering their common sense

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 20

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

29.09.2025 6

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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 2

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The danger of defining ‘Islamophobia’

22.09.2025 20

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Nish Kumar has been ‘cancelled’ – but not for the reason he thinks

19.09.2025 10

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Lockdown's shadow / Britain is becoming a nation of hermits

17.09.2025 10

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Progressives can never be wrong

15.09.2025 10

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Attack / Why Reform’s critics say they’re fascist

10.09.2025 5

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Leave bad manners to the public, not the police

25.08.2025 10

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Britain’s sickness is plain to see on the streets of London

23.08.2025 6

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Why is the state so obsessed with speech crimes?

22.08.2025 2

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Closing hotels won’t stop the migrant crisis

20.08.2025 10

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Birmingham / What’s wrong with a St George’s Cross flag?

16.08.2025 20

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What’s wrong with a St George’s Cross flag?

15.08.2025 40

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‘Two-tier justice’ / The looming ‘Islamophobia’ scandal

21.07.2025 10

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Society / The ‘Gen Z stare’ is another act of teenage rebellion

21.07.2025 5

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The irony of the Afghan resettlement scandal

18.07.2025 4

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How political ideology corrupted science

14.07.2025 30

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Welfare / Britain’s mental health crisis isn’t what you think

12.07.2025 20

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Britain’s mental health crisis isn’t what you think

11.07.2025 3

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Work to live / Most people hate their jobs. Get over it

09.07.2025 10

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Fake news / The decline of the fact checkers is something to celebrate

07.07.2025 10

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Trial by victimhood has taken over Britain’s courts

13.06.2025 30

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Worrying about migration doesn’t make you an extremist

08.06.2025 10

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The real reason why academics write in gobbledygook

30.05.2025 10

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Why we need Virgin Megastores

26.05.2025 20

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Katharine Birbalsingh is right about our worship of victimhood

23.05.2025 20

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The trouble with BBC Verify

16.05.2025 30

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Border farce / What Starmer’s immigration critics don’t get

13.05.2025 20

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The police have lost it

11.05.2025 4

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It shouldn’t be illegal to burn a Quran

09.05.2025 20

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BBC Bitesize’s communism blindspot

21.04.2025 30

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Trans activists won’t be silenced by the Supreme Court ruling

18.04.2025 7

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‘Stop Brexit Man’s court victory is a win for free speech

14.04.2025 4

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Have we got worse at dealing with stress?

12.04.2025 9

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Holy woke / Why is Keir Starmer wishing us Eid Mubarak?

31.03.2025 10

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Free speech / Why are police targeting parents who complained in a school WhatsApp group?

30.03.2025 20

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Why are police targeting parents who complained in a school WhatsApp group?

29.03.2025 10

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London is really not as bad as people say

22.03.2025 20

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The audacity of ‘decolonising’ Shakespeare

17.03.2025 10

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Why Henry Kelly was popular

02.03.2025 40

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RIP / Why Henry Kelly was popular

02.03.2025 40

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Keir Starmer is right to cut foreign aid

26.02.2025 10

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