maternity leave
Shock: there is a pregnant “person” in the Cabinet
Legislation on maternity leave is now drafted to apply to “a person” not “a woman” who is a mother
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
I don’t like Mondays
Rishi Sunak has had enough of domestic politics, and is hoping a shooting war in the Red Sea will sway his fortunes
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious