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I’ve deleted a Tweet from yesterday welcoming Starmer’s increase in defence spending. While extra investment in our military and security is essential I can’t support Labour’s gutting of the aid budget to fund it. Yes, some aid is wasted (just like some defence spending and some

Words of the week. lookstranger.substack.com/p/matrix-topic…

⛪️ This Country’s great Cathedrals are central to our history, communities, and local economies. The Second Church Commissioner rightly recognises their immense value, and it is a privilege to work cross-party to ensure they continue to thrive. I urge the government to provide

My wife (English, obviously) comes from an Indian family and we have two children. We are all English, obviously. And British. And we support India. But what does Suella think? That I am English but my children are not? Does my Irish ancestry perhaps mean I am not English either?

OK, this seems to be the settled populist position. If you’re born in England, live in England and identify as English but are black or brown you’re not English. But if you’re born outside of England, have never set foot in England but identify as English and are white, you are.

Philip Collins These people are wilfully rewriting the English language on the absurd premise that the word ‘English’ cannot be preceded or proceeded by a noun. What’s wrong with ‘half-English’ or ‘Indian heritage’? 🙄

Indeed. As the great Billy Bragg once pointed out. youtube.com/watch?v=WAHgw0…

Actualise the world, (Or maybe don't). lookstranger.substack.com/p/actualise-mi…

New words and why we ought to be neither pretentious nor too conservative: lookstranger.substack.com/p/pretentious-…

The twittering of birds. lookstranger.substack.com/p/commas-jargo…

Labour, the party of work, is in rebellion over cuts to welfare. To understand why, turn to the thinking of Richard Titmuss, writes Philip Collins. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/69561…

The Labour Party is a party of work, so why such a rebellion over cuts to welfare? We need to look at the intellectual legacy of Richard Titmuss, the founding inspiration of Labour welfarism, and perhaps even more so than William Beveridge, writes Philip Collins

The A-ha moment. Pure Partridge. lookstranger.substack.com/p/data-active-…

For anyone who once really liked The Times you might like the new incarnation of The Observer. I am going to join soon and that's where I will be doing my writing.

Given the furore caused by the clip LBC put out last night on the Trans issue, let me be clear. 1. I was doing my job as an interviewer to put a counterpoint to Joanna Cherry KC 2. I also put counterpoints to the argument put forward by Freda Wallace. 3. I do not believe

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🎥: If Reform UK were to enter government (perhaps in coalition with the Tories), what would their agenda be? Philip Collins joins the Prospect Podcast to discuss. youtu.be/28j03aNb9jg

A moving tribute for Mario Vargas Llosa by Michael Ignatieff. libertiesjournal.com/online-article…