Age
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
Not going to be ignored (w/ Victoria Smith)
On the demonisation of middle-aged women
In praise of ageing handymen
The quiet comforts of local community
The uses and abuses of nostalgia
The old like to think they had it harder, but secretly feel they had it better, too
The joys of getting down with the grandkids
Campaigners for inter-generational justice miss the mark
Age cannot wither them: has the casting of Ian McKellen as Hamlet gone too far?
Does age-blind casting work when adapting Shakespeare?
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
