Bans
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?
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
Small boats and big problems
The asylum issue is not going away, and Keir Starmer must face it soon
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
The blame game
Some terrible villain has made the Conservative Party unpopular. But who could it be?
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
