Paul Burke
Paul Burke is an award-winning advertising copywriter
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
Will the next prime minister stand up for women’s rights?
Rhetorical progress has been made on gender issues — but will it affect policy?
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography