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IT’S quite a bold move for a ­business to tell its customers to go stuff it.

Testimonies from the Jan. 6 investigation have shed light on Trump’s actions in the days leading up to and during the Capitol, which cannot be ignored.

The institutions that used to unite the country now bitterly divide it

In this most holy month of Pride I have been making my observances by thinking about shame. After all, shame is the reason that ‘Pride’ has taken on the meaning it has in recent years.

The establishment used to be easy to define but its influence has dispersed. Power is now held by often lesser known figures who dominate our public institutions and oversee today’s orthodoxies

The people who found a strange comfort and excitement from battling through the COVID period find an enormous sense of purpose and drive in boasting about themselves and judging other people.

Even the most benign organisations can be turned rancid by the politics and culture of our era

What were the protestors going to do? Sit in the Capitol for a few hours? Form a parallel government presided over by the QAnon Shaman (as one of the protestors became known)?

Democrat-run cities are rotting, but the people responsible for this calamity are taking over the party

Prime Minister Boris Johnson knew the upset that rightly existed in this country. He spoke to it and he answered it

When gay rights were difficult to argue for, most major companies were nowhere to be seen.

The blasphemous film that no one had watched now cannot be watched. And once again, as with the Batley schoolteacher, the problem will be said to have gone away.