Elderly
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The rising threat of digital exclusion
Old and vulnerable people are at risk of dangerous marginalisation
The great rebalancing
Why economic growth needs a strong domestic realm
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
In praise of ageing handymen
The quiet comforts of local community
The uses and abuses of nostalgia
The old like to think they had it harder, but secretly feel they had it better, too
The grim truth about social care
We need to restore a sense of generational solidarity
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life