Everyday Lies
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
Doing time
British prison sentences must be taken with a generous pinch of salt
Election bumf
Mélenchon is peddling all the old socialist lies
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
Our throwaway society
A trip to the waste disposal site provides an insight into human nature
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
Burmese days: for good and ill
There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
Talk of the town
On the strangeness and variety of urban development
The EU is overregulating AI
Caution and control are being overemphasised above economic and technological opportunity
Is Badenoch ready?
The stand-out Conservative looks less convincing with each interview
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
