Artillery Row
Private Education and Public Benefit
Why private schools must leave liberalism in the dustbin
Boris on the box. Or Boris at the despatch box?
Should lockdown policy be announced in televised addresses or to a near-empty parliament?
The Fatal Hubris of Professor Lockdown
It wasn’t an attractive 38 year-old that brought down Neil Ferguson
Is Lockdown costing more lives than Covid?
25% more people are dying because of lockdown than Covid
Priests and palaces
The Archbishops don’t realise the significance of the church building
Should booby-traps be legal?
When the state fails to protect us many want to act themselves
Upstart bloggers
The new keyboard pundits snapping at the heels of the established players
The way we were
Telegraph letters, the nation, & David Twiston Davies, 1945-2020
Speak for liberalism, Ed
Ed Davey has sacrificed the LibDems’ commitment to civil liberties
The mythologised history of the Left
Nearly everything you think you know about the history of the Labour Party is false
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
