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    Nov 19

    “Everyone got this election wrong” and Brendan O’Neill discuss the Trump years, the summer of riots and the collapse of journalism:

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  2. 22 minutes ago

    Hollywood celebrities are joining the woke crusade against Hungary. These people loathe Hungary because it’s a country that dares to stand up for tradition and Christian values. That is anathema to the identity-politics crew, says

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  3. 2 hours ago

    "Elites tried to delegitimise the 2016 election. Left-wingers gave cover for the security state to interfere with domestic political affairs. As it happened to be at the disadvantage of Trump, it was swept under the rug” on the Trump era

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  4. 4 hours ago

    Liberal pundits used to say Donald Trump was a fascist intent on holding on to power forever. Now his refusal to concede is just a hilarious temper tantrum. Clearly they never believed the ‘Trump is Hitler’ guff in the first place, writes

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Biden's national-security picks herald a return to the endless foreign interventionism of the pre-Trump years. Expect a ramping up of activity in the Middle East and elsewhere, and all the bloody consequences that come with that, says Tim Black

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  6. 6 hours ago

    Making misogyny a hate crime would turn women from men’s legal equals into a specially protected victim group. It risks subjecting every interaction between men and women to police intervention. It would be demeaning, says

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  7. 7 hours ago

    In the new system of tiers, gastro pubs that serve fancy meals will be fine, while traditional pubs that only serve booze will be punished. There is no scientific justification for this. It’s just pure snobbery, says Mick Hume

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  8. 8 hours ago

    This summer’s riots were the most widespread and destructive of the past 50 years. But I was one of the only journalists to go on a nationwide trip and talk to people affected. For the media, the need to defeat Trump came first on the media

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  9. 9 hours ago

    Police have hauled a 72-year-old woman into a van because she dared to protest against lockdown. This is only the latest outrageous example of police overreach during the pandemic. No one is safe from the corona cops

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  10. 10 hours ago

    Martin Bashir is alleged to have used dubious methods to obtain an interview with Princess Diana. So what? He did what all good journalists would do -- use any means he deemed necessary to get at the truth, says

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    16 hours ago

    Lee Rigby’s killers and Manchester bomber Salman Abedi were known to the authorities. Why did they fail us? Me, for :

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  12. 11 hours ago

    Biden’s presidency heralds a return of the war hawks. Blinken, Sullivan, Haines... all his national-security picks played key roles in the bloody interventionism that prevailed before 2016. And now they're back for more, writes Tim Black

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  13. 12 hours ago

    The economic devastation of this year hasn't been caused by Covid-19. It's been caused by the political response to it. Policymakers have terrified people into changing how they produce and consume, says Phil Mullan

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  14. 13 hours ago

    Neil Basu, who leads Britain’s counter-terror policing, has called for new laws to censor anti-vax content online. Firstly, what does this have to do with him? Second, censorship will only embolden anti-vaxxers, says

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  15. 14 hours ago

    England’s four-week lockdown was not necessary. The models used to justify it were wildly wrong. Cases were levelling off, and falling in some places, before it began. And yet, the new tier system is stricter than when it started, writes

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    18 hours ago

    By me for ‘women are being used as an excuse to ramp up hate-crime legislation and curtail free speech.’ Policing men, demeaning women

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  17. 15 hours ago

    One example of Priti Patel’s “bullying” is that she said civil servants were “fucking useless”. Well, many of them are “fucking useless”. The Home Office is notoriously “fucking useless”. Patel’s only crime was to tell the truth, says Brendan O’Neill

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  18. 16 hours ago

    Michael Adebolajo was saved from terror charges in Kenya by the UK before he went on to kill Lee Rigby. Salman Abedi was allowed to travel freely to and from Libya before the Manchester bombing. Our security services keep failing us, says

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  19. 17 hours ago

    The Law Commission wants to make misogyny a hate crime. But there are already laws against harassment and violence. This is an attempt to criminalise speech and to send a message that women are victims, says

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  20. 18 hours ago

    Pubs that don’t serve ‘substantial meals’ will be punished under the new tiered system. We all know what kind of pubs these are – old-fashioned ‘wet pubs’ frequented by working-class people. This is a class war on boozing, says Mick Hume

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  21. 19 hours ago

    From the US to much of Europe, the nations that have suffered most economically during the pandemic share one thing in common. They are those whose governments have done most to terrify the public, says Phil Mullan

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