Artillery Row
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
A judicial defence of religious liberty is long overdue
Christians should not be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Beware of education technology
The Lexile Scale is alchemy, not science
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Bridget Phillipson’s educational agenda must be opposed
The Department for Education is taking aim at standards in British schools
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
