Oliver Rackham
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive