The tragedy of prenatal screening
There is no such thing as a wrongful birth
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real