Andy Burnham
He won’t take the knee
Has Robert Peel been reincarnated as the Chief Constable for Manchester?
Should all England be a Greater Manchester?
Neither Starmer nor Johnson know if local lockdowns are any more effective than national lockdowns. But both have dug-in to their positions.
You’ll take it and like it
Madchester? Sadchester? No, Gladchester, thought Boris
An £800,000 lesson in how not to do diversity training
Lloyds should never have fired Carl Borg-Neal
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Abuse in the name of equality
How is it not obvious that women should be searched by women?
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
The progressive defence of stereotypes
How the feminist campaign against the gender binary was subverted
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity