Social Work
Show trials for social workers
The professionals “guilty” of failing to accept the medicalisation of vulnerable children
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
