Clients
Value neutral language drains meaning from discourse
Flights of fancy
The background noise of safetyism
Pregnant people
Can we not call women women?
The NHS
Not clapping for the NHS
Virginia Woolf: Teflon goddess of the trivial
She was nasty, crude, racist and often a poor writer — so why is she revered?
Doing time
British prison sentences must be taken with a generous pinch of salt
Election bumf
Mélenchon is peddling all the old socialist lies
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
Our throwaway society
A trip to the waste disposal site provides an insight into human nature
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
