The abnormality of nannying
Why do we assume that lost freedoms are universal?
In defence of booze
The dangers of alcohol are being overstated
Ultra-processed health scares
UPFs are NBD
Institutionalising orthorexia
What exactly is wrong with processed food?
The anti-gambling racket
New regulations are not based on expertise
Starving for a good argument
Henry Dimbleby’s new book doesn’t hit the spot
The roots of school rage
The closure of grammar schools entrenched privilege
The madness of crowds
Andrew Doyle has been warning about Critical Social Justice for years, and he kept the receipts
Interesting times
The problem with low interest rates
Smashed stereotypes or revisionist reveries?
Why judge prohibitionists by their words when we can judge them by their actions?
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?