Sontag
Among the deathworks
On culturing culture
The all-round smart cookie with a tin ear
Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
