birth rates
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Building a culture for kids
Financial support is not enough to raise fertility rates
Make childcare cheaper, not more complicated
We won’t educate children better if there are no children to teach
Political fever dreams
Not everything we dislike is Hitler
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Existential questions
The Conservative Party has to come up with some compelling answers if it is to survive
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
