Canals
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
