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
Before the current era
In a time of multiculturalism, mere words provoke apoplexy
Thinking on inking
An intellectual tries — and fails — to find deep philosophical justifications for the modern wave of tattooing
Lions led by donkeys
This tired cliché recently came to mind in a British hospital
French Fancies
Is the Navy really open to all?
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
