Paternalism
The Rashford trap
Rashford’s campaigning moves the state towards becoming a substitute parent
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Go west
Rishi has been a bit down lately
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
