Helen McNamara
Whitehall shirks the blame game
Are civil servants the blameless dupes of “partygate”?
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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
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers