Smugly bugged by Brexit
Lionel Shriver reviews Ian McEwan’s ‘The Cockroach’
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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?
The cosy world of an Oxbridge golden age
Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
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
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal