Language
Netspeak
How we can — and must — win the war on language
Howdy, partner
On the least erotic noun in the English language
Stop calling everything porn
Diluting the meaning of a word disguises the harm of the real thing
Acronyms
Acronyms are one of the means by which bureaucracies hide or obfuscate what they do
Out of the blue
Despite some political hang-ups, James Fox provides diverting stories on the history of colour
A correctional facility
Who, exactly, is being corrected by an execution?
The gift and curse of language
It separates us from the animals – and the angels
World Class
On a phrase used by people with brains of tinsel
Redrawing boundaries
The constituency boundary review is in, and it makes for very long reading
The talk of the track
Nick Cohen compiles a phrase book for neophyte runners
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature