Special Adviser
Et tu Baker?
Steve Baker’s call for Dominic Cummings to be sacked is a dramatic intervention
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world