Columns
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Ethnic identity is fine, as long as you’re not English
In the corridors of power, every ethnic grievance is welcome — except for the concerns of the English
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena