Refurbishment of Parliament
Restore, renew or start again?
The debate on Parliament’s refurbishment won’t be resolved until we decide how much we want to change it
Those WhatsApp groups in full
Thirteen reasons to ban politicians from smartphones
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”