Exile
Georgia on my mind
There is an exodus of Muscovites with money to Tbilisi and Turkey
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England