Acronyms
Acronyms are one of the means by which bureaucracies hide or obfuscate what they do
On Lying
The line between dishonesty and stupidity can be difficult to spot
A correctional facility
Who, exactly, is being corrected by an execution?
World Class
On a phrase used by people with brains of tinsel
Graphs
By means of proper framing, graphs can lie like a parliamentary candidate
“Community”
Am I really part of the EasyJet community?
Ghost in the machine
Does the printer really “experience” anything?
Diego Maradona was not a victim
We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple
NHS propaganda
No rainbow-painting child could possibly understand the relative performance, good or bad, of the NHS
Public spending and public health
Theodore Dalrymple says the connection between expenditure and result is extremely tenuous
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
