Health
Romanticising the NHS helps no one
We should welcome its successes while urgently seeking to address its failures
Banning BOGOFs? Bog off!
It’s not just “no silver bullet” — it simply won’t work
Bad medicine
How the Guardian’s favourite doctor ruined his healthy reputation
Public health and the eternal paternalist
Public health can be a Trojan horse for anti-capitalism
Give prohibitionists an inch …
Public health experts are coming for all gambling, not just certain kinds
It’s time to end the NHS delusion
We have some of the worst health inequalities in Western Europe
We have to deal with the rise in long-term sickness
It is outrageous that millions are out of work and we don’t know why
Forlorn Hoop dreams
The club needs consistency, not the constant psychodrama of play-off hopes followed by relegation fears
The costs of cost-benefit analysis
We have to be more sceptical about the use of data in governance
The trouble with diagnosis-positive feminism
Taking women seriously about their health should not always mean trusting doctors
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
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
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening