The pontiff who looked the other way
David Kertzer unearths dramatic evidence from recently-released Vatican files
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
