David Steel
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
A Boxing Day treat
It’s Boxing Day — and that means it’s the King George VI Chase at Kempton
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
We need higher standards for academic writing
Confused thinking and confusing prose has led to a reversible decline
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
