Civil Service
Whitehall takes the knee
When the MoD’s top man signs off with a BLM hashtag it’s a brave official who doesn’t get the message
More freedom, less information
The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to guarantee honesty and transparency in government, but has ensured that controversial decisions will be forever shrouded in secrecy
Politicians versus mandarins
Spats between governments and civil servants are inevitable when administrations have a radical agenda
The BLM takeover of Whitehall
Why don’t ministers care about the politics of their civil servants?
A nation of lawyers
Secret, haphazard pseudo-laws are not the way to treat the coronavirus
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
This vision glorious
Let us allow the glory of Easter to touch our daily lives
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
