X.Trapnel
No party for female voters
Gender-critical feminists have almost no one worth supporting
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
“Safe and legal routes” is a dangerous cliché
Parties should be challenged to be clear on what they mean
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Pro-parent policies can raise birth rates
Practical change can help people to have as many children as they want
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
Communitarianism hits the ballot box
The local elections provided a glimpse of a future where voting is divided by ethnicity
The great Conservative farewell
The Conservatives’ terrible result could become terminal