Latin
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Double dutch
Latin nomenclature can be useful
Classic mistake
Is Latin a dead language?
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit
A classicist in No 10: Boris and his worldview
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
