Artillery Row
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
