Booze
Banning ads is mad and bad
Keir Starmer is embracing Sunakian petty prohibitionism
The blind ideology of public health
Minimum pricing has failed, so why is it still promoted?
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library