The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
