Alicia Kearns
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space