Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
On track for a meltdown
The pros and cons of stalking
Trying and flailing
How, exactly, are we meant to avoid each other this Christmas?
I regret choosing a llama-friendly school for Hector
Just meekly approaching Google Classroom burnout …
On safari
How was your summer? Listen to mine, and weep
The camping trip
A sizzling summer of sex has passed me by
Go substack yourself!
I’ve had it up to here with your nonsense!
Will keeps banging on about slimming
The poshness of old school skinny
The takeover
North to south London is a strictly one-way street
Making me SCREAM!
Zoomers bring out my inner boomer
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was