Social Work
Show trials for social workers
The professionals “guilty” of failing to accept the medicalisation of vulnerable children
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty