Department Store
We aren’t being served
The closure of Jenners of Edinburgh is an object lesson in how to kill the department store
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves