Cities
Climate change: lessons from the past
The cooling of the earth, not its warming has proved most destructive
The ghosts of Norwich
The callous destruction of an ancient city in the name of efficiency, modernity and a failed utopian vision of “the Good Life”
In praise of the Midlands
The Midlands are hurried through, unappreciated on the way to somewhere else
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?