Adoption
Adoption’s broken promises
Children and parents are being let down by the authorities
Your body, my choice
The bodies of women and babies are freely traded in our dystopian modern marketplace
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy