Why the election was good for Unionism
A diversity of voices will help rather than hinder the cause
Here comes trouble
Farage is going to cause huge headaches for the Tories, and may be here to stay
Speak loudly, and carry a small stick
The Tory Party under Rishi Sunak has been all bark and no bite
The end of high quality homes
Michael Gove’s new leasehold reforms risk derailing the economic engine that helped finance some of Britain’s finest suburbs
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
Against the imaginary conservative friend
Left-wing and liberal journalists should stop appealing to “true” conservatism
An election without ideas
We need intellectual substance, not just idle gossip
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
Sue Gray’s inbox
As hacked by Robert Hutton
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
Rejecting Kant’s cant
Germany, cradle of the hate speech law
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”
Crowning glory?
The coronation came and went far too quickly
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
Sex-Machina
Holy month is upon us
Policies Galore!
Scotland has social democratic goodies under the floorboards, so long as the wicked English excise men don’t spoil everything.
