Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi: what xe would have done
Seek out dissenting transphobes and punish them without mercy
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems