Hangover Square
Revisiting Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square
Hamilton first delivered this to his publishers 80 years ago in March 1941. What does a re-read of it tell us about the time that produced it?
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
