Portcullis
It was meant to be a screenshot of beauty
The Modern Dometheus
Why do we prioritise animals over pre-born babies?
The Government’s animal sentience bill makes a mockery of infant rights
“I trusted a journalist …”
MPs shocked to discover a liar could have risen so far
He’s as mad as hell
The Speaker isn’t going to take it anymore – not from Boris at any rate.
The curious case of Dougie Smith
Who’s paying Mr Smith to do what?
Should I buy a horse?
My desire to stay green is leading me to the bridleway of despair
Big Bozza is not watching us
Cuts are increases. Good deals are bad
Boris giveth and Boris taketh away
Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own
Rob Hutton hasn’t a clue what he’s doing
All cynics need the chewing gum of romance
Switzerland and Britain need to talk
London and Bern need to coordinate their approach to the EU
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
