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Toby Young

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No sacred cows / Is the end of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ in sight?

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Books / Why, at 75, does Graydon Carter still feel the need to impress?

27.03.2025 4

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Television / Adolescence demonises white working-class boys

25.03.2025 6

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No sacred cows / The curse of Disney’s Snow White

20.03.2025 9

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No sacred cows / Are you offended by ‘hard-working families’?

12.03.2025 10

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No sacred cows / Are you offended by ‘hard-working families’?

12.03.2025 4

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No sacred cows / The woke movement is finally over

05.03.2025 20

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No sacred cows / The woke movement is finally over

05.03.2025 10

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No sacred cows / Beware this terrible new AI email feature

04.02.2025 7

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No sacred cows / Beware this terrible new AI email feature

03.02.2025 3

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No sacred cows / Beware this terrible new AI email feature

03.02.2025 3

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University of Buckingham / James Tooley’s ordeal is over – but why was he ever suspended?

29.01.2025 6

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No sacred cows / The Trump I (barely) know

28.01.2025 10

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No sacred cows / The Trump I (barely) know

28.01.2025 5

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No sacred cows / The Trump I (barely) know

24.01.2025 9

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No sacred cows / Can I be cancelled twice?

One of the biggest regrets of my life was saying yes when Jo Johnson asked if I wanted to be on the board of the Office for Students (OfS) in the...

02.01.2025 3

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No sacred cows / Could I limit myself to 100 bottles of wine in a year?

Back in January, I wrote about my new year’s resolution to cut down on my drinking. The thought of total abstinence was too bleak, so my plan was...

30.12.2024 10

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Should I become Lord Young of Loftus Road?

When the editor of this magazine called to congratulate me on being given a peerage, he said: ‘It’s QPR’s first win this season.’ Not quite...

20.12.2024 2

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No sacred cows / At 61, it’s official: I’m ‘young old’

I read with some disappointment recently that the Encyclopaedia Britannica considers 61 – the age I am now – to be the beginning of old age. It...

01.12.2024 3

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No sacred cows / Carry on Kafka: this is our Brave New World

An ex-copper who blogs as Dominic Adler – not his real name – came up with a good phrase this week to describe where Britain is heading under this...

21.11.2024 2

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No sacred cows / Must try harder, Education Secretary

The headmaster of one of the best comprehensives in the country was once asked the following question by Tony Blair: ‘If you could do one thing to...

14.11.2024 2

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No sacred cows / Did I deny my son a shot at the Premier League?

When my youngest son Charlie was seven he was talent-spotted by a QPR scout who saw him playing football in the park and invited to try out for the...

09.11.2024 10

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No sacred cows / Will Keir Starmer get me banned from football games?

Last Saturday, I made the 400-mile round trip to Burnley with my 16-year-old son Charlie to see Queens Park Rangers play the Clarets. Quite a long...

02.11.2024 20

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Why is Labour axing the Tories’ most successful education policy?

By any measure, the free schools programme has been a resounding success. If you judge schools by how much progress their pupils make between the...

23.10.2024 20

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No sacred cows / Starmer’s snowflakes’ charter

I almost choked on my cornflakes when I read that the Prime Minister had said he would slash red tape and ‘rip out the bureaucracy that blocks...

17.10.2024 6

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No sacred cows / Why play the Saudi anthem before an all-British boxing match?

For only the second time in my life, I went to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last weekend. At least, it felt like I was in Saudi. I’m talking about...

26.09.2024 5

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No sacred cows / The science of voting for Kamala Harris

The latest issue of Scientific American, a popular science monthly published by Springer Nature, contains an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris. She...

19.09.2024 2

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No sacred cows / Help! I’ve got class envy

The summer holidays were a washout as far as my children are concerned, because we had to cancel our trip to Norway when I discovered two of their...

12.09.2024 2

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No sacred cows / Labour’s backwards steps on free speech

Free speech advocates like me need to stop talking about the meagre gains we made under the last government because the present one seems to be...

05.09.2024 5

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No sacred cows / I was wrong about staycations

I hadn’t intended to go on a ‘staycation’ this summer. Quite the contrary, I’d booked a family holiday to Norway. Last August, I made the...

22.08.2024 2

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No sacred cows / Will Starmer make the Online Safety Act even worse?

Good God, there’s a lot of guff being talked about the Online Safety Act. This was a piece of legislation passed by the previous government to make...

17.08.2024 9

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