Julia Lopez
Making love to the camera
Tory MPs are astonished to discover that CCTV exists
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
The failure of Anglican managerialism
The decline in church attendance is a symptom of deeper problems than poor management
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
The changing shape of British roads
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart walk the winding path of British transport history
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting