Birkenhead
A walk in the park
Can late Elizabethans do without Victorian vistas?
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
