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Asylum Accommodation is Ripping off the Taxpayer 

24 June 2026 at 15:03

Asylum accommodation costs have more than trebled to over £15 billion and made a billionaire out of Clearsprings owner Graham King. This scandalous racket needs to end, says Madeleine Gillies.

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The Truth About the “Brains Behind Burnham”

24 June 2026 at 07:00

"Is Miatta Fahnbulleh the brains behind Burnham?" asks the New Statesman this week, even coining the term "Fahnbullehism". No, says Charlotte Gill: it's the brains behind Fahnbulleh that we need to be looking at.

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German Public Health Authorities Dispense Lunatic Heatwave Advice Warning Against Air Conditioning

23 June 2026 at 19:00

As a 'heat dome' settles over Western Europe, German public health authorities have begun dispensing lunatic heatwave advice, says Eugyppius, including, bizarrely, claiming air conditioning makes rooms warmer.

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2016-2026 Was The Decade of Anti-Populism

20 June 2026 at 07:00

It's been 10 years since the Brexit vote, a revolution that, along with the rise of Trump, academics branded 'populism'. But the truth, says Prof James Alexander, is that it’s been a decade of relentless anti-populism.

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Girls Aged 11 Eligible for Restarted Puberty Blocker Trial

19 June 2026 at 17:00

Girls as young as 11 will be eligible for puberty blockers under the restarted Pathways trial after the MHRA agreed new protocols despite an outcry and indications it could have been limited to 14-plus.

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Sir Kenny Dalglish is Right: Cancer Should be Private – A Lesson it Seems Many Need to Learn

19 June 2026 at 15:00

After accidentally revealing his cancer diagnosis, Sir Kenny Dalglish is a role model in insisting such matters "should ideally be private", says Steven Tucker. It's a lesson many seem to need to learn.

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The Clash of Sexual Civilisations

18 June 2026 at 19:00

With mass immigration we are witnessing a clash of sexual civilisations, says Bettina Arndt: two incompatible systems of rules about men, women and desire are colliding and the consequences are playing out in courtrooms.

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Oxfordshire Seeks First Ban on Union Flags in Street

18 June 2026 at 17:26

Oxfordshire has become the first council to start a legal battle to ban residents from raising Union and St George flags on or near public highways due to the "distress" they cause.

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We Should Push Back Against the Trend for Blank Walls in Schools

17 June 2026 at 13:00

Joanna Gray has a new low to report from the coal face of what remains of British education: the trend for blank walls in classrooms. This miserable "display diet" is designed, inevitably, to help the 'neurodiverse'.

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I Discovered a Cannabis Farm in My Property – and the Police Did Nothing

16 June 2026 at 09:00

Hurty words on social media will bring the police to your door. But when a landlord discovered a cannabis farm in her property, officers didn't want to know. Welcome to two-tier Britain.

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White People Blocked From Jobseeker Schemes

15 June 2026 at 19:00

White jobseekers are being shut out of taxpayer-funded employment schemes, with many employment support programmes offered by local authorities to benefits claimants open only to ethnic minorities.

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Long 90s: The Last Good Decade

13 June 2026 at 17:00

Lately, Nick Dixon has been suffering from ‘Long 90s’: the ailment whereby one feels a sudden and almost unbearable desire to return to the 1990s. It can strike at any time and particularly affects men over 40.

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The Liberal Democrats Are No Friends of Liberty

The Liberal Democrats' intolerance of gender critical campaigners and Christians has rightly landed them in legal hot water and shown that those in charge are no friends of liberty, say David Campanale and Natalie Bird.

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No, the Police Should Not ‘Reflect the Community They Serve’. They Should Be Good at Their Job

13 June 2026 at 07:00

Of all the myths that have undermined policing in Britain, perhaps the most pernicious is that polices forces should 'reflect the community they serve'. No, says Joanna Gray: they should be good at their job.

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The Day That Satire Died in Britain

12 June 2026 at 17:00

Prof James Alexander has pinpointed the day that satire died in Britain: it was in 2015, when Private Eye launched its podcast, and therefore confirmed it was just another tedious organ of the right-on liberal Left.

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