M. Woods
M. Woods is an academic researching the history of political thought in eighteenth-century Britain and France
Lockdown has fostered a ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence against women
In the wake of Sarah Everard’s death, why has no one acknowledged that Lockdown has provided the ideal conditions for which violence against women can thrive?
What kind of government rules by fear?
The spirit of Lockdown has paralysed the country, and the government itself
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
