Labour Policy
Vanilla flavour Labour
Something borrowed, something blue – Keir Starmer’s vision cedes the initiative to Rishi Sunak
What would be different if Starmer was in charge?
Keir Starmer’s weakness is a lack of healthy scepticism for the wisdom of experts
The price of safety
From school face masks to how to pay for Covid – Tory MPs are getting nervous
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Try Christianity
Reflecting on the cross, we find a truth that is often too easy to forget
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
