Bans
Let’s ban the TV
Television, not the internet, is driving people mad
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
Social media can be good for young people
It has its risks, but what doesn’t?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd