The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Don’t give a Voice to racism
A proposed change to the Australian constitution will enshrine inequality in Parliament
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
In defence of anons
Anonymous accounts did not cause the rioting, so why are they being blamed?
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
