Billy Nomates
It’s not bullying, it’s criticism
Artists don’t have to be shielded from critics
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
