Everyday Lies
A doctor’s rites
Theodore Dalrymple reveals how the choice of words in medical obituaries are important
Irregular and unequal
Is inequality really a disease? The chairman of the British Medical Association thinks so…
Natural health service
Theodore Dalrymple on the naturalness of what we eat
Switchboard is busy
An untruth exposed
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
Telling tales out of school
Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Europe at the crossroads
The EU elections could see the populist right make significant gains
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
Just show me the money
A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender
It isn’t ageist to want Joe Biden to drop out
People are concerned about his condition, not his age
Civilisation versus barbarism in Kensington and Chelsea
A new book reminds us of the irreplaceable value of our architectural heritage
