New Statesman
When is a bot not a bot?
Answer: when it’s a feminist
UN-Believable
Women are cancelled, white people are racist, the UN goes woke, and limited and specific law-breaking
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
