Daniel Defoe
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
Do feminists speak for all women?
To speak on behalf of women is not to speak for or over them
Telling tales out of school
Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
