Columns
Pensions or the planet?
Fund managers are torn between maximising clients’ savings and saving the Earth
Rosie Cackle
Veteran comedienne
The Diary of Dilyn the Dog
As told to Robert Hutton
Turning students into weapons
The control of free speech at universities is a first step on a path towards totalitarianism
Storm in a frying pan
The row over sending great British bangers to Bangor illustrates a dismal lack of gastronomic culture
On Lying
The line between dishonesty and stupidity can be difficult to spot
Sing when you’re sinning
Football may be the new religion, but it faces the same challenges as the old
The magic of the games
The Olympics have a weird and wonderful history
Disunited kingdom – and all the better for it
Boris Johnson’s ‘one great indivisible United Kingdom’ is neither one, nor indivisible, nor united
Scheherazade scoops the pot
Women now dominate the literary landscape
Misappropriating motherhood
La Leche League and the pornification of breastfeeding
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Addressing misogyny must include addressing trans activism
Against the wokewashing of sexual objectification
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Dear Keir, get real
Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
