Sam Smith
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
Taking the piss
If you’re going to be provocative, people are going to be provoked
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
