Social Issues
Mining the past
There is a deep appetite among Britain’s television audience for dramas that tackle complicated social issues
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
