Let children’s books be children’s books
Literary hyper-analysis can do more harm than good
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
