second homes
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Holiday hoo-ha
The trauma of second-home envy
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
London’s lamps live on
Thanks to the dedication of the Gasketeers, a beautiful tradition has been saved
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
