Planning Reform
In defence of the Town and Country Planning Act
The essentially valuable function of the planning system has been subverted by its inheritors
On a pedestal?
Give up joyless meat-hating for Lent
Who wants to rule forever?
Being in power a long time doesn’t guarantee you’ll get things done
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The mistakes of marriage reform
New reforms to wedding laws are actually dangerously regressive
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
A lesson from a century ago
In Helskini, architect Alvar Aalto is treated, for good reasons, as a national hero
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel