Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
A plan to save our towns
Time for a renaissance in our devastated urban landscape
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate