Government
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Gunfight at the Not-Really-OK Corral
It’s high noon for Sunak’s Conservatives as the bullets start to fly
Torypocalypse
Rishi Sunak has industriously succeeded in alienating everyone
Whitehall in the thick of it
The Civil Service’s utter determination not to do anything ministers ask of it makes the Government’s work tricky
The myth of Sunakos
What if you got everything you wanted and did not deserve?
A minister for men?
A pointless non-job for the boys
Not so smart casual
Modern politics and the decline of the suit
Flourish we must
British conservatives must focus on action over rhetoric
Where are my children going to live?
The government owes us answers
The collapse of the “Rainbow Nation”
The rise and fall of secular religion in South Africa
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
