Pedestrianisation
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule