Rehabilitation
Throwing good money after bad
Spare us the spectacle of incredible claims to reform criminal drug-users by showering them with more public sector love
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Scruffy splendour
Holy Week showcases a very Venetian combination of Renaissance splendour and DIY
Defend Christian private schools
Keir Starmer’s tax raid would be bad for children, parents and the state
The Greens are worse than useless
Their reputation for being nice if a touch naive is far too generous
Can Reform perform?
A Farage-less Reform campaign began with more of a splutter than a bang
Lettuce be, Liz
Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
Collapse of the cordon sanitaire
The success of nationalists is shaking European politics
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway