Backbench Business Committee
Parliament’s Dragon’s Den
The former inaugural chair of Parliament’s Backbench Business Committee recalls its first ever meeting
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
