The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
The wrong sort of difficult
Natascha Engel reviews Difficult Women, by Helen Lewis
Labour’s fork in the road to victory
If Labour appeals primarily to young progressive urban supporters, can it win back traditional working class communities?
Labour’s recovery will begin by returning to its roots
It’s organisation and closeness to community, not a magic policy solution, that will rejuvenate Labour
At the court of parliament’s aristocracy
Rank and rules are pulled at the Liaison Committee “super group”
Restore, renew or start again?
The debate on Parliament’s refurbishment won’t be resolved until we decide how much we want to change it
Two Britains
Former Labour MP Natascha Engel says the country divides on our relationship with HMRC
The Zoom Parliament is here – but hopefully not to stay
Remote voting may encourage MPs to be more independent, but politics is necessarily a team sport
A vengeful pursuit of political power
Natascha Engel reviews Unspeakable by John Bercow
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
This vision glorious
Let us allow the glory of Easter to touch our daily lives
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
