Archives
The virtues of the boys’ club
Men need single-sex spaces, too
Reflections on a revolution in Westminster
Asking questions is the first step to finding answers
The lives of other apes
How to think about our hominid cousins
Snakes and ladders
Only the weak and vain are tempted by lobbyists and the lure of a trip to the Palace
Rediscovering Martin Amis
He made reading, and writing, fun
Sonatas after slaughter
1919 Coda: Janacek, Boulanger, Debussy, Elgar (Delphian)
Proper pro opera
Fun with fear and failure
The nicotine closet
Where are the smoking politicians?
The price of porn
Why do right-wing newspapers make a joke of it?
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
