NHS
Putting politics at the heart of everything
The NHS should care about patients, not ideology
Enough to drive you insane
The driving test logjam is a depressing symptom of national dysfunction
Unholy influences
The weird and not so wonderful world of influencers, and an open invitation to Theodore Dalrymple to get inked
Let the people smoke!
Life is boring enough without making it duller
Truss was right
The British economy can’t afford low growth
The making of an illusion
Gendered intelligence and the “trans child”
There’s no case for mask mandates
We cannot trust models based on bogus assumptions
Coffey and cigarettes
Smokers have suffered enough
The flawed reasoning behind the mask “requirement” in healthcare settings
The spurious attempts of NHS chief executives to defend their positions
We can do better than the NHS
Why do we accept sub-par care?
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
