affirmative action
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Dividing our way to equality
Equality legislation has enabled unfairness and division
Justification by merit alone?
The American Dream is a national theology foundered on the rocks of race and meritocracy
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Eventful afterlife of a visionary genius
Unexpected bit players in Friedrich’s story set this endeavour apart from your average art biography
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style