North-South Divide
More than whippets and flat caps
Brian Groom’s Northerners weaves together a rich seam of rebels and innovators
Doubling down, not levelling up
Why Gove’s plan is dead on arrival
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
