Data Journalism
Can population density really tell us anything about Covid?
A closer look at the data suggests suggests otherwise
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation