Bureaucracy
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
An Athena SWANsong
The equalities scheme threatens the intellectual foundations of Irish institutions
The mate, mate, mate state
How managerialism absorbs masculinity
Is Britain closed for business?
New development is being strangled by red tape
Centrist Dadocracy
Rory Stewart thinks only he can save the nation
A little less conversation
The UK is drowning in discourse
Nothing to declare
Against the boring tyranny of proceduralism
“No thinking, please, we’re British!”
Our politics needs more strategic intelligence
Falling out of love with London
Bureaucrats are degrading England’s capital
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
