Geography
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Hard times on the Black Dragon River
Thubron shows an unyielding willingness to listen to those he meets and attempt to understand their worlds
Rambling through Chesham and Amersham
Each constituency has a unique and fascinating history
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy