Peter McDonald
Peter McDonald is a senior civil servant and an amateur historian of endurance fell running.
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Queen of the road
For a quarter of a century, not one British woman could surpass her
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums