Columns
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract