Michael Gove
All aboard the good ship ARC
I leave the ARC a far happier animal than yesterday
The end of high quality homes
Michael Gove’s new leasehold reforms risk derailing the economic engine that helped finance some of Britain’s finest suburbs
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Where are my children going to live?
The government owes us answers
Fantasies of urban order
Gove’s Cambridge dreams reek of desperation
Awe-inspiring shamelessness
Michael Gove fails the test
Abolish the leaseholds
Building homes is useless if it doesn’t lead to ownership
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve