What Anglo-American tradition?
Winners and losers in the history of ideas
Systemic obfuscation
Diane Abbott isn’t the only one who’s wrong about racism
A silent whistle
Paranoia about rhetoric does more harm than good
Can we be heroes?
Cowardice is inescapable in British public life
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
