The myth of childhood obesity
The statistics are unfit for purpose
Petrol panic 2021
The petrol shortage could have been avoided if petrol stations had raised their prices
Sweet taste of sovereignty
It seems “Global Britain” is smaller and less delicious
Hot air
Climate change targets are rising at a dangerous rate
Follow the Who Funds You
Oddly nobody’s shadowbanning conspiracy theories about the Great Barrington Declaration
The risk in a second lockdown is clear
Everyone suffering in pursuit of impossible promises is pointless
Who do we think we’re kidding with the NHS?
Someone somewhere damaged this country very badly
The lockdown’s founding myth
We’ve forgotten that the Imperial model didn’t even call for a full lockdown
Blown fusionism: is a common enemy enough?
Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
