Ideology
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
An unconventional (Re)Freshers’ Guide
How to be sane and subversive amid student life
Labour’s blues
Leftish economics allied to moderate social conservatism offers a compelling route to power for Sir Keir Starmer
The kids are alright
In defence of the British state school pupil
Corrosive curation
Against the politicisation of museums
A movement to where?
What, if anything, is “right-wing” art?
Against national civic service
Citizens should not have to bail out the government
The strange death of Tory pragmatism
Why can’t the Conservatives get things done?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
