Everyday Lies
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
Before the current era
In a time of multiculturalism, mere words provoke apoplexy
Lions led by donkeys
This tired cliché recently came to mind in a British hospital
French Fancies
Is the Navy really open to all?
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
