Grammar
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
Grammar ain’t a class issue
Angela Rayner’s inverted snobbery helps no one
In defence of good grammar
Why Angela Rayner needs to stop torturing our language
Is grammar elitist?
The soft bigotry of low expectations
The correct answer to the Brexit 50p grammar war
Dominic Green gives his tuppence on the Brexit 50p comma debate
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment
The Incredible Sulk
Nigel Farage is all about entertainment — not difficult questions
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
Faustian modernity
200 years ago, Goethe invented modern man
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
28 hours later
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been infected with the deadly Rage Virus
Keir: more than just a lucky general
Neither Left nor Right can accept that Starmer’s impressive focus and strategic sense is responsible for transforming Labour’s prospects
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
The Road to the Cass Review — (5) Lord Moonie
How one “awkward sod” refused to follow the trend on gender
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
