Podcast
What John Whittingdale really thinks of the BBC
The new culture minister airs his views on auntie
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
The generation game
Ultimately pro-natalist in tone, this book approaches millennial worries about parenthood with curiosity and kindness
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
