What is the purpose of the state? Increasingly, it appears to be to secure something called ‘equality’. But we long ago moved past the point at which this was achieved through formal equality in the sense of everybody being equal before the law. What we now seem to expect is to experience equality in what […]
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Resolving the Middle East conflict requires intellectual honesty, historical context and moral clarity. These are not border disputes. They are existential struggles rooted in theology, ideology and survival. The recent Israeli strikes against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure underscore how much higher the stakes have become. The origins of this enmity stretch back over 1,300 years. The
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There is an increasingly palpable sentiment that the elite educational institutions across the Western world are changing, and not for the better. Still, the reputations of Oxford and Cambridge retain a veneer of exceptional knowledge-creation based on their high educational standards, merit-based admission of students and the collective genius of historic alumni. The binary star-system
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What effects does immigration have on society? Some are obvious and can be seen with the naked eye. Immigrants may look different. They may dress differently and have different habits. Other effects are less obvious and must be studied using social science. Do immigrants commit more or less crime than natives? Do they pay more
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There is something deeply unsettling about Sir Keir Starmer’s rise—not merely in the way a man of such rigid ideological conviction has slithered into power, nor in the eerie silence surrounding his radical past, but in the quiet, bureaucratic suffocation he embodies. He is no firebrand, no demagogue, not even a compelling liar like a
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By most parameters, be it education, healthcare and democratic participation, Britain lags behind most other ‘industrialised’ nations. Granted, nations should not be judged on GDP or per capita income alone, both of which are in decline in the UK. Yet they give some indication into trends. Britain has a ‘three tier’ society: firstly, the public
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Even our dear leader, founder of this excellent website, is wrong sometimes. In his latest Spectator column, Toby Young raises the redundancies that will inevitably hit SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) staff as a result of Labour’s education policies. Putting aside the overall idiocy of Labour’s education policies, Toby Young is incorrect in seeing
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Dramatic confirmation that the sea ice in the Arctic has been stable for nearly two decades is contained in a recently published science paper from a team led by Dr Mark England from the University of Exeter. The finding is of course obvious to anyone who studies the data but it will inconvenience the activist
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Do you remember your first day at school? I have fragments of memories, but one memory which is vivid is crying bitterly as my mother left and being comforted by the teacher who sat me on her knees and told me that my mother would be returning that afternoon to collect me. It is moments
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Marine Le Pen, former chair of the French Right-populist Rassemblement National and the leading opposition politician in France, has been convicted by a Paris court of embezzling public funds. She has received a four-year prison sentence, two of which are suspended and two of which are to be served under house arrest with an ankle monitor.
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