Employment
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The Employment Rights Act is wrong for employment
It is terribly expensive and miserably burdensome
The Employment Rights Act’s true cost
The Employment Rights Act promises better wellbeing, but the Government’s own numbers point to higher costs, weaker growth and fewer jobs.
Young people deserve the chance to work
Teenagers are being squeezed unfairly and irrationally out of the workplace
The sinister side of staff networks
Obstructive activists and malcontents have been enabled by equalities legislation
Freedom takes work
We have to protect free speech from overbearing bosses
The great wage squeeze
Why is everyone in Britain paid the same amount?
Ed Miliband does not understand economics
Why employment figures aren’t the right metric for energy policy
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Employees have the right to be gender-critical
The ICO’s gender diktats are indefensible
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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
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill