The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
Under the microscope
What is the value of research if the results are so fragile?
Fifty shades of muck
The lost art of governing your tongue
Poland was and is right about Russia
Opposing Putin isn’t hawkish, just realistic
Language, truth and logic
Talking to Stella Creasy is never easy
Does Sadiq Khan think he’s living in America?
The mayor of London should focus on representing the city that elected him
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
Censored speech
The Queen’s speech revealed a government failing to protect free expression
A successful account of the disastrous
When the Dust Settles is a record of an achingly human response to chaos and emergency
Those we love, and those we love to hate
Sweet dreams are made of this
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
Mansplaining womanhood
What is a woman? What are they for? Do they have souls? Men may never know, as that might involve asking a woman her opinion
Such sweet sorrow
Lent is an ideal time to take pleasure in a gentle, contemplative and very English strand of musical melancholia