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Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
