Language
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
A moral panic about moral panics?
We are in danger of making unhinged generalisations about unhinged generalisers
Why we need a shared language
It is not just a matter of communication but of culture
Rethinking “free speech”
Censorship is not only desirable but necessary if a democratic society and its laws are to function correctly
The rich and varied past of our islands
Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks
We apologise for the inconvenience to your journey
Against the neutralisation of harm
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
