Evening Standard
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
