Ernest Bevin
The road to Hartlepool pier
The bourgeoisification of Labour isn’t new. It was catalogued in Orwell’s scabrously entertaining dissection of socialism
Can Labour learn to love the market?
As state socialism advances on all fronts, what is Labour’s real electoral future?
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Bridget Phillipson: culture warrior
The Labour party seems determined to end the culture war — by winning it
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
