Capital City
A city of SpAds
Giving up on London is not a capital idea
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
