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Is charging VAT on private schools a vote loser?
Whether a policy is wise and whether it is unpopular are different questions
Sycamore Gap and Britain’s sacred trees
Why has one tree inspired such emotion?
Whataboutmeism
British politics is afflicted by a hatred of normality
A circular firing squad
The Conservatives have no one but each other to blame
From monoculture to counterculture: why I am leaving Birkbeck for Buckingham
It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities
IPSO’s grooming gangs mix-up
A 2020 report continues to dampen the truth on Britain’s worst sex abuse scandal
A maverick medic
A theatrical biography of a life saver
Political correctness contra aesthetics
Public life is becoming uglier, duller and more soul-destroying
The renewables red herring
It is not true that high energy prices are caused by a lack of investment in renewables
Can’t read my poker face
As party conference opens, Sunak looks like a man waiting for his bluff to be called
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
