Everyday Lies
Falling into addiction
Drug addiction is not something that just happens to you
A crime gone tragically wrong
Which crimes go wonderfully right?
We apologise for the inconvenience to your journey
Against the neutralisation of harm
The TV boss who decides what you watch
Or does he?
See it, say it, sorted
The slogan is not only vulgar, but an implicit lie
Clients
Value neutral language drains meaning from discourse
Flights of fancy
The background noise of safetyism
Pregnant people
Can we not call women women?
The NHS
Not clapping for the NHS
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
