Caroline Nokes
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Women MPs should be representing women’s interests
It was ludicrous to talk about microaggressions in the aftermath of an alkaline attack
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
