Iris Murdoch
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up