David Crystal
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
A good book about great powers
Jan Rüger has written a fine albeit not definitive book on British and German relations
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
A garden reborn
a garden reborn