Stephen Fay
Stephen Fay, who died on 12 May 2020, was a distinguished journalist who enjoyed a long and varied career, notably as a writer on the Sunday Times in the Harold Evans era and later as deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday.
The Sinking City
Beset by flooding and corruption, Venice is slowly falling into decline
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
Hang up on Britain’s blight boxes
Outdated regulations are keeping thousands of redundant phone boxes on Britain’s streets
Lessons from the Argentinians
There is little value in complaining about foul play if you cannot win
