Levelling Up
Opera is not elitist
Tired stereotypes enable philistine governance
Levelling up to where?
The chatterati are in no place to lecture
Wedlocked
Why the Government squeamishness on mentioning marriage?
Grow Britain by getting out of the way
Gove has swallowed the opposition’s patronising rationalisations of Brexit, along with their economically illiterate solutions
Doubling down, not levelling up
Why Gove’s plan is dead on arrival
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong