Blue Labour
Labour’s blues
Leftish economics allied to moderate social conservatism offers a compelling route to power for Sir Keir Starmer
Legacy of failure
13 years of missed chances, bungled crises and miserable inaction
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Sweet magic in Hokkaido
Sushi for breakfast, crisps for dessert and delicious chocolate
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
The curse of “TERF”
The term is intended to dehumanise dissenting women
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
Woke invades the sciences
The intrusion of irrational ideology is distorting and censoring science
