Lying
Britain is drowning in a sea of bad law
The Public Office (Accountability) Bill will accomplish nothing
Disturbed by blurbs
On the ethics of literary marketing
On Lying
The line between dishonesty and stupidity can be difficult to spot
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
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.
Selling desirability
It is truthful to sell art as a luxury accessory
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble