Constance Watson
Constance Watson is assistant editor of The Catholic Herald. She tweets at @C0nstanceWatson
Burned by political expedience
Clandon Park remains a shell after it was gutted by fire six years ago. Now the National Trust is telling a one-sided story about its past
Are knitted jumpers racist?
Why has the social media fashion trend ‘Dark Academia’ been criticised for being ‘too white’?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
