Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Ned zero
Ed Miliband’s net zero plan makes no sense
The case for bullying hippies
Green Party ideas are not just wrong but dangerous
The Tories should aim to lose in 2024
Retreat to victory!
Gone with the wind
Renewable energy is cripplingly expensive
2035: the end of civilisation
Where is energy policy taking us
The case for a British military-industrial complex
Deindustrialisation will cost the UK dearly in 21st century warfare
The false choice between housing and wildlife
Biodiversity targets are killing housebuilding. They needn’t
Was the Peterloo Massacre good for public health?
How pre-vaccination societies held greater freedoms than we do today
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Sticky situation
Everyone’s Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe was different. All were revolting
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
