Natalism
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
A question of selection
The Sensible Centrists have made a flawed case against party members choosing leaders
Old man shouts at Trump
The US Presidential debate was a tragicomic spectacle
Will the next prime minister stand up for women’s rights?
Rhetorical progress has been made on gender issues — but will it affect policy?
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
Doing something can be worse than doing nothing
The Gaza pier and the failings of a “do something” foreign policy
The UPF panic is a fad
Chris van Tulleken cannot seem to decide what an ultra-processed food even is
