Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
