Funding
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Funding? Check your EDI policies
Rather than the merits of the research itself, it now matters more who is doing it
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
How China woos the Muslim world
Money talks louder than Uyghur Muslims can scream
The arts must secede
Against the cultural-industrial complex
EDI contra science
The misuse of “ethics” in academic research
Why do the Tories love to promote their enemies?
They have failed to find and empower their own supporters
#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia
The numbers game has incentivised bad behaviour
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
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
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people