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Much of life is disenchantment. You learn that you cannot fly, or do magic; that the dinosaurs will not come back.

Certain journalists aren’t allowed to express scepticism about the transgender debate

Of all the ways to run an asylum system, a ‘first over the Channel in a dinghy’ competition is the worst.

The Guardian’s former editor is no stranger to the revolving door

The future rolling out before us is one not of greater freedom but of endless pings, masks, boosters and variants.

Biden’s hysterical rhetoric forgets American democracy has never been so fragile

Liberal Western states need to learn to live with their neighbours. Heavy-handed intervention from Brussels is not the answer

We have kept being ­promised that life will get back to normal and the Covid days will be put behind us.

The site has distorted our perception of reality

While the US fights for freedom, we hear barely a peep as our country is turned into a land of ID cards and endless mask mandates

The fact they can control vast swathes of Afghanistan is appalling. The fact they now look set to once again overrun the whole country is a tragedy.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan was an inevitable tragedy