House of Lords
The Tories haven’t a prayer
Secularism seems to grip the party that was once the embodiment of Anglicanism
Safeguards needed for children seeking home abortions
Pregnant women and girls must see a qualified health professional in person
“Good chaps” need not apply
Lord Chancellors who respect inconvenient unwritten rules are no longer welcome
The Fear and the loathing
When trans activists target your job
Censorship by default
The PCSC Bill threatens ordinary people by criminalising “inconvenient” speech
The House of Lords
The Rump Parliament had the right idea in 1649 when it closed down the upper chamber as “useless”
Who told Boris to make Claire Fox a peer and why?
Johnathan Ball was three years old, Tim Parry was twelve
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
