Lost Gardens
Paradise regained
The start of each growing season is a return to a past season’s “lost” garden
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
